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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 295, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 11, 1996Bartow County, Paulding County, Georgia

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 781 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 7:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCBartow, Floyd, Polk3 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.