Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 3:17 PM EDT for White County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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
- May 24, 1996, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County White County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 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
- 1828 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 894 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 241918 SVRATL GAC311-241945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 317 PM EDT FRI MAY 24 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...WHITE COUNTY AT 315 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF CLEVELAND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY DROP LARGE HAIL. 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 24, 11:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-242345- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1145 AM EDT FRI MAY 24 1996 ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE HOT AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES ALONG WITH A SOMEWHAT MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE SHOULD RESULT IN WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 16 min |
| May 24, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 34 min |
Nearby
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.