Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 1:02 PM EST for Dodge County, Telfair County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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
- Mar 6, 1996, 1:02 PM EST (18:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1996, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dodge County, GA, Telfair County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KATL 061804 RRA SVRATL GAC091-271-061845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 102 PM EST WED MAR 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...DODGE COUNTY...TELFAIR COUNTY AT 1:00 PM EST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR 3 MILES SOUTH OF ROCHELLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS DODGE AND TELFAIR COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT 45 MINUTES. 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, Mar 6, 9:00 AM EST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR DATE/TIME GROUP
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
900 AM EST WED MAR 6 1996
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
750 AM NEAR MULBERRY GROVE GA SHERIFFS OFFICE RPTD TORNADO
3/6/96 AND HAMILTON TOUCHDOWN. 1 HOUSE DAMAGED.
HARRIS
800 AM FORSTON GA 15 TREES UPROOTED AND BLOWN
3/6/96 HARRIS IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
845 AM BEAVERDAM ROAD GA SHERIFF REPORTED DAMAGE TO
3/6/96 OGLETHORPE HOUSE. 7 TREES DOWN.
846 AM DELRAY ROAD GA STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO HOUSE
3/6/96 UPSON ON DELRAY ROAD BETWEEN
U.S. 19 AND GA 36.Local storm report, Mar 6, 9:05 AM EST, 3 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
900 AM EST WED MAR 6 1996
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
750 AM NEAR MULBERRY GROVE GA SHERIFFS OFFICE RPTD TORNADO
AND HAMILTON TOUCHDOWN. 1 HOUSE DAMAGED.
3/6/96 HARRIS
800 AM FORSTON GA 15 TREES UPROOTED AND BLOWN
HARRIS IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
845 AM BEAVERDAM ROAD GA SHERIFF REPORTED DAMAGE TO
OGLETHORPE HOUSE. 7 TREES DOWN.
846 AM DELRAY ROAD GA STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO HOUS.E
UPSON ON DELRAY ROAD BETWEEN
U.S. 19 AND GA 36.Local storm report, Mar 6, 9:07 AM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR DATE/TIME GROUP
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
900 AM EST WED MAR 6 1996
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
750 AM NEAR MULBERRY GROVE GA SHERIFFS OFFICE RPTD TORNADO
3/6/96 AND HAMILTON TOUCHDOWN. 1 HOUSE DAMAGED.
HARRIS
800 AM FORSTON GA 15 TREES UPROOTED AND BLOWN
3/6/96 HARRIS IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
845 AM BEAVERDAM ROAD GA SHERIFF REPORTED DAMAGE TO
3/6/96 OGLETHORPE HOUSE. 7 TREES DOWN.
846 AM DELRAY ROAD 4 GA STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO HOUSE
3/6/96 UPSON ON DELRAY ROAD BETWEEN
U.S. 19 AND GA 36.Local storm report, Mar 6, 12:40 PM EST, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1240 PM EST WED MAR 6 1996
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
910 AM WARNER ROBINS GA HOUSTON CO EMA REPORTED POWER
3/6/96 HOUSTON LINES AND ONE TREE DOWN ALONG
HWY 96
925 AM AMERICUS GA SUMTER CO 911 REPORTED A TREE
3/6/96 SUMTER CO FELL OVER ON POWER LINES AND
THE TREE WAS ON FIRE
730 AM LAWRENCEVILLE GA CITIZEN REPORTED DAMAGE TO
3/6/96 GWINNETT 1 HOUSE...TREES DOWN AND
POWER OUTAGES ON HWY 124
2 MILES SOUTH OF HWY 316 NLocal storm report, Mar 6, 12:42 PM EST, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1240 PM EST WED MAR 6 1996
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
910 AM WARNER ROBINS GA HOUSTON CO EMA REPORTED POWER
3/6/96 HOUSTON LINES AND ONE TREE DOWN ALONG
HWY 96
925 AM AMERICUS GA SUMTER CO 911 REPORTED A TREE
3/6/96 SUMTER CO FELL OVER ON POWER LINES AND
THE TREE WAS ON FIRE
730 AM LAWRENCEVILLE GA CITIZEN REPORTED DAMAGE TO
3/6/96 GWINNETT 1 HOUSE...TREES DOWN AND
POWER OUTAGES ON HWY 124
2 MILES SOUTH OF HWY 316 NThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 7:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 30 min |
| Mar 6, 7:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 8:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 8:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion | 39 min |
| Mar 6, 8:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley, Taylor | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 8:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Sumter, Webster | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 8:44 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 4 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:44 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 4 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 43 min |
| Mar 6, 9:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 9:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 9:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski, Twiggs | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 10:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 40 min |
| Mar 6, 11:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 11:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski | 54 min |
| Mar 6, 11:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 26 min |
| Mar 6, 12:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 54 min |
| Mar 6, 12:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Treutlen | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 12:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 25 min |
| Mar 6, 12:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 30 min |
| Mar 6, 1:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot, Taylor | 51 min |
| Mar 6, 6:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.