Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 294, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1996, 6:59 PM EDT for Wilcox County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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
- Aug 7, 1996, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilcox County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 509 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 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 072301 SVRATL GAC315-072330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 659 PM EDT WED AUG 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX COUNTY AT 655 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF ABBEVILLE. THIS STORM IS DRIFTING SLOWING SOUTH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Aug 7, 4:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
GAZ076-085-086-097-098-110>113-072215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 420 PM EDT WED AUG 7 1996 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTH THROUGH JEFFERSON COUNTY. THEY WILL MOVE THROUGH JOHNSON AND EMMANUEL COUNTIES BY 515 PM AND THROUGH TREUTLEN...MONTGOMERY AND TOOMBS COUNTIES BY 615 PM. RADAR INDICATED THE STORMS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY RAINFALL RATES OF AN INCH TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCH AN HOUR. THIS MAY PRODUCE SOME MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS...SMALL CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THESE STORMS MAY ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 6:18 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
GAZ107>110-080015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 608 PM EDT WED AUG 7 1996 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH. THE STRONGEST STORM IS NORTH DODGE COUNTY...10 MILES NORTH OF EASTMAN...NEARLY STATIONARY. THE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF AN INCH AN HOUR WITH STORM TOTALS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES POSSIBLE. THIS MAY PRODUCE SOME: MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS...SMALL CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THESE STORMS MAY ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH. THE ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 800 PM.
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 6:49 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
GAZ108>110-080050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 647 PM EDT WED AUG 7 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AT 640 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDER- STORMS OVER WILCOX...DODGE...AND TELFAIR COUNTIES IN CENTRAL GEORGIA. THESE STORMS WERE DUMPING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RESULTING IN SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW-LYING AREAS. ALSO...VERY FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES WERE OCCURRING WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. THESE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH. THIS SLOW MOVEMENT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING. NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE ENOUGH rTO FLOAT YOUR VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD.
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.