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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 295, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1996, 7:24 PM EDT for Bartow County, Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 11, 1996, 7:24 PM EDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bartow County, GA, Paulding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 781 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 112325 SVRATL GAC015-223-120000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 724 PM EDT SUN AUG 11 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN BARTOW COUNTY...NORTHERN PAULDING COUNTY AT 720 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF CARTERSVILLE ON STATE ROAD 61...MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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. HE$AVY 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, Aug 11, 4:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
GAZ019-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 430 PM EDT SUN AUG 11 1996 ...HEAVY RAIN ACROSS FLOYD COUNTY... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY NORTH NORTHEAST ACROSS FLOYD COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF UP TWO INCHES AND HOUR OR MORE. THIS HAS RESULTED IN STORM TOTALS OF OVER THREE INCHES WHICH HAS CAUSED SOME MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS...SMALL CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. OTHER STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MORE ACROSS THE COUNTY THROUGH 630 PM. RESIDENTS OF FLOYD COUNTY ARE URGED NOT TO DRIVE INTO4 WATER COVERED ROADS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 6:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
GAZ012-019-020-120005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 604 PM EDT SUN AUG 11 1996 ...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING ACROSS FLOYD COUNTY AND MOVING INTO GORDON AND BARTOW COUNITES... WEATHER RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO FLOYD COUNTY FROM ALABAMA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES OF AN INCH AN HOUR OR MORE. THIS RAIN WILL BE ON TOP OF ALREADY RAIN SOAKED AREAS AND MAY CAUSE REFLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME ROADS. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO GORDON AND BARTOW COUNTIES FROM FLOYD COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR. THIS MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADS. RESIDENTS OF THESE COUNTIES ARE URGED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALIZED FLOODING AND NOT TO DRIVE INTO WATER COVERED ROADS. THESE STORMS MAY ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 7:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Polk | 3 hr |
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.