Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1996, 12:31 PM EDT for White County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1996, 12:31 PM EDT (16:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1996, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County White County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 12:35 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Helen, GA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -96 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 061631 SVRATL GAC311-061700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1231 PM EDT MON MAY 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...WHITE COUNTY AT 12:30 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN WHITE COUNTY NEAR HELEN. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. 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
Special weather statement, May 6, 11:46 AM EDT, 45 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-062200- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1145 AM EDT MON MAY 6 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. A SLOW MOVING FRONT ACROSS TENNESSEE WILL CONTINUE DRIFTING SOUTH INTO EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL ALLOW THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE AFTERNOON HEAT. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MORE LIKELY OVER NORTH GRORGIA BUT SOME OF THE STORMS COULD DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA AS FAR SOUTH AS A LINE EXTENDING FROM HAMILTON TO PERRY TO SOPERTON. SVPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE SO SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE NEEDED. DH BDL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | White | 27 min |
| May 6, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 37 min |
| May 6, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 37 min |
| May 6, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 39 min |
| May 6, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 33 min |
| May 6, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 30 min |
| May 6, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 41 min |
| May 6, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 31 min |
| May 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 30 min |
| May 6, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 40 min |
| May 6, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 31 min |
| May 6, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth, Fulton | 41 min |
| May 6, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Hall | 52 min |
| May 6, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 34 min |
| May 6, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 32 min |
| May 6, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 31 min |
| May 6, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 35 min |
| May 6, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 41 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.