Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 283, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1996, 7:29 PM EDT for Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1996, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dooly County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Vienna, GA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 132330 SVRATL GAC093-140015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 729 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...DOOLY COUNTY AT 725 PM WEATHER RADAR INDUCATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR VIENNA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. DUE TO ITS SLOW MOVEMENT AND ACCOMPANYING RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE LOCALLIZED FLOODING. 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, Jul 13, 5:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
GAZ080-093>095-132230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 526 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996 AT 5:20 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM EXTENDING FROM REYNOLDS TO RUPERT MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO PEACH AND MACON COUNTIES BY 5:35 PM AND OVER FT. VALLEY AND MONTEZUMA BY 5:45 PM. THIS STORM MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH...HEAVY RAIN TO ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES PER HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:29 PM EDT, 2 hours before
GAZ036-132230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 530 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996 DUE TO SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA PRODUCING RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR...MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW-LYING AREAS IS OCCURRING. WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS WHICH WILL BE MOVING OUT OF THE ATHENS AREA BY 550 PM EDT. TMS
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
GAZ108-132300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 600 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996 AT 555 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTH OF ABBEVILLE NEARLY STATIONARY. THIS STORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR WHICH MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. THIS STORM MAY ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY WINDS TO 35 MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
GAZ104-132315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 613 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996 AT 6:10 PM DT WETHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR AMERICUS MOVING NO
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
GAZ104-132315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 613 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996 AT 6:10 PM DT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR AMERICUS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO AN INCH PER HOUR...WINDS TO 40 MPH...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:15 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
GAZ105>108-140020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 716 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996 AT 710 WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST DOOLEY AND WESTERN CRISP MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL ENTER EAST DOOLEY AND EAST CRISP COUNTIES BY 7:40 PM AND WILL ENTER PULASKI AND WILCOX COUNTIES BY 8:00 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY RAIN FALL RATES OF UP TO 1.5 INCHES AN HOUR...WITH WIND GUSTS TO 35 MILES AN HOUR...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STALTION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.