Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 8:03 PM EDT for Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 1996, 8:03 PM EDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 300003 SVRATL GAC207-300045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 803 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MONROE COUNTY AT 802 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE MONROE/CRAWFORD COUNTY LINE JUST SOUTH OF RUSSELLVILLE. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL REACH I-75 BETWEEN FORSYTH AND BOLINGBROKE BY 830 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 29, 7:30 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
722 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
539 PM MADRAS GA WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96 COWETA
539 PM NEWNAN GA WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96 COWETA
605 PM FULTON COUNTY AP GA 60 MPH TSTM GUST
4/29/96 FULTON
645 PM UNADILLA GA WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96 DOOLY
645 PM ELKO GA 1.00 inch hail
4/29/96 HOUSTON
645 PM BONAIRE GA WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96 HOUSTON
650 PM SMYRNA G"A WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96 COBB TREES DOWN ALONG COBB PKWY
650 PM ROSWELL GA WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96 FULTON TREES DOWN ALONG OLD ELLIS RDNearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.