Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 250, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 4:32 PM EDT for Crisp County, Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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 15, 1996, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1996, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 152032 SVRATL GAC081-093-152115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 432 PM EDT SAT JUN 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...CRISP COUNTY...SOUTHERN DOOLY COUNTY AT 428 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN DOOLY COUNTY BETWEEN VIENNA AND RICHWOOD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER CORDELLE AROUND 5 PM. 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, Jun 15, 11:16 AM EDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-160300- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1115 AM EDT SAT JUN 15 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A COMBINATION OF SUNSHINE AND A MOIST UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS GEORGIA WILL CREATE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOO&N AND EVENING. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. KM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Wilcox | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.