Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 8:53 PM EDT for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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 24, 1996, 8:53 PM EDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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 24, 9:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bowdon Jct, 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 2447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 250054 SVRATL GAC045-250130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 853 PM EDT FRI MAY 24 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CARROLL COUNTY AT 850 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PEACHTREE CITY INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY JUST NORTHWEST OF CARROLLTON ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN CARROLLTON AND BREMEN. THIS STORM SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 38 min |
| May 24, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 46 min |
| May 24, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 46 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.