Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1996, 7:43 AM EDT for Taliaferro County, Warren County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Jul 5, 1996, 7:43 AM EDT (11:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1996, 8:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Taliaferro County, GA, Warren County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:45 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 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 051145 SVRATL GAC301-265-051215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 743 AM EDT FRI JUL 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...TALIAFERRO COUNTY AT 745 AM WEATHER RADAR INDUCATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF CRAWFORDVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. 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.
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, Jul 5, 7:29 AM EDT, 14 minutes before
GAZ038-039-050-051-061-062-051215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 718 AM EDT FRI JUL 5 1996 A THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTH FROM HANCOCK COUNTY TO BE IN SOUTHWEST TALIAFERRO COUNTY BY 735 AM AND TO BE OVER LYNEVILLE BY 805 AM AND OVER RAYLE IN WILKES COUNTY BY 835 AM. THIS STORM MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 53 min |
| Jul 5, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.