Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1996, 12:22 AM EST for Harris County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 68 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 7, 1996, 12:22 AM EST (05:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1996, 1:30 AM EST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harris County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KATL 070523 RRA SVRATL GAC145-285-070630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1222 AM EST THU MAR 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...HARRIS COUNTY...TROUP COUNTY AT 1222 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN LEE COUNTY ALABAMA MOVING EAST TOWARD THE GEORGIA/ALABAMA BORDER AT 45 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO HARRIS AND TROUP COUNTIES BY 1230 AM. THE FIRST THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS OF WHITESVILLE...JONES...AND SMITH CROSSROADS. THE SECOND LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA AROUND 1245 AM. 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, Mar 6, 6:39 PM EST, 5 hours 43 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-030>035-037-041>049-052>058-066>070-078- 079-070015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 635 PM EST WED MAR 6 1
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 6:39 PM EST, 5 hours 43 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-030>035-037-041>049-052>058-066>070-078- 079-070015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 635 PM EST WED MAR 6 1
Local storm report, Mar 6, 8:06 PM EST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
806 PM EST WED MAR 6 1996
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
900 AM COUNTYWIDE GA FLOODING
3/6/96 FORSYTH FORSYTH EMA REPORTED 10 ROADS
CLOSED BY FLOODING. ROADS
AFFECTED WERE GENERALLY NEAR
RIVERS OR STREAMS. ROADS
AFFECTED INCLUDED BENNETT RD
...HOLBROOK RD...STYLES RD...
SHAMBLY GAP RD...OLD FEDERAL
RD AT NICKLESON...STONY PT RD
...HABERSHAM GATE DR OFF HWY
20 EAST...SHILOH ROAD...
WATSON RD NEAR HOOKS RD AND
CONCORD RD OFF HWY 9. ALSO
2 GRAVEL ROADS WERE WASHED
OUT WITH RUTS 8-9 INCHES DEEPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 1:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 1:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 2:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Johnson, Washington | 41 min |
| Mar 7, 2:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 2:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 3:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Jones, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Talbot | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam | 5 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Warren | 5 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 5:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Jones, Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 4 hr |
| Mar 7, 5:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Talbot | 4 hr |
| Mar 7, 6:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Pike, Spalding, Upson | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Morgan, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Oconee, Walton | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 8:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.