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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1996, 7:01 PM EDT for Bartow County, Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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
- Jun 7, 1996, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 546 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 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 072305 SVRATL GAC015-115-072345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 701 PM EDT FRI JUN 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...BARTOW COUNTY...SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY AT 700 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN ROME AND ROCKMART MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE ROME AND CARTERSVILLE AREAS BETWEEN 705 AND 720 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Jun 7, 3:32 PM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
GAZ001>038-041>050-052>060-066>072-078>082-091-094-072330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 330 PM EDT FRI JUN 7 1996 ...UNSETTLED WEATHER FOR NORTHWEST GEORGIA THROUGH SATURDAY... A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM APPROACHING GEORGIA FROM THE NORTHWEST ALONG WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING FROM THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES WILL COLLIDE WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE STATE THIS WEEKEND. NORTHWEST GEORGIA...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM BUENA VISTA TO ATHENS...WILL SEE THE CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM SYSTEM LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS AND VISITORS TO NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD PLAN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR THIS WEEKEND WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER IN MIND...NEVER STAY OUTDOORS IN A THUNDERSTORM. EVERYONE ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF DANGEROUS WEATHER THREATENS. KEEP LISTENING TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 40 min |
| Jun 7, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 40 min |
| Jun 7, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 48 min |
| Jun 7, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 36 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.