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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 7, 1996Spalding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1996, 1:26 AM EST for Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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, 1:26 AM EST (06:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 1996, 2:15 AM EST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Spalding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:28 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 23 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KATL 070627 RRA
SVRATL
GAC255-070715-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
126 AM EST THU MAR 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...SPALDING COUNTY
 
AT 126 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
ALVATON MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS MOTION WILL TAKE THIS
STORM THROUGH GRIFFIN BY 150 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

Local storm report, Mar 6, 8:06 PM EST, 5 hours 20 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 DEEP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 12:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	68 min
Mar 7, 1:12 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Upson	48 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

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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.