Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 298, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1996, 8:26 PM EDT for Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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 23, 1996, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 5 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
- 454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 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 240027 SVRATL GAC063-089-113-240100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 826 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CLAYTON COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN DE KALB COUNTY ...NORTHEASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY AT 825 WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHERN DEKALB COUNTY TO JONESBORO TO NORTHEAST FAYETTE COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 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, Aug 23, 6:24 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
GAZ039-051-062-232325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 624 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 1996 ...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ACCOMPANYING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WARREN COUNTY THAT WILL MOVE INTO WILKES AND TALIAFERRO COUNTIES... AT 625 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WASHINGTON IN WILKES COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE STORM INTO WARREN AND TALIAFERRO COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THE STORM MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAINFALL AT THE RATE OF ONE TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR...FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUST TO 40 MPH. THE RAIN MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. 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, Aug 23, 6:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
GAZ039-051-062-232325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED HEADER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 624 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 1996 ...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ACCOMPANYING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WILKES COUNTY THAT WILL MOVE INTO WARREN AND TALIAFERRO COUNTIES... AT 625 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WASHINGTON IN WILKES COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE STORM INTO WARREN AND TALIAFERRO COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THE STORM MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAINFALL AT THE RATE OF ONE TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR...FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUST TO 40 MPH. THE RAIN MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. 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, Aug 23, 7:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
GAZ002-003-240015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 711 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 1996 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH CATOOSA COUNTY... AT 710 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RINGGOLD IN CATOOSA COUNTY...AND AFFECTING WALKER COUNTY. THIS STORM SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT...WHICH CAN RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS STORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF0 RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb | 34 min |
| Aug 23, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton | 44 min |
| Aug 24, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 39 min |
| Aug 24, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 36 min |
| Aug 24, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Peach | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Henry | 27 min |
| Aug 24, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Paulding | 37 min |
| Aug 24, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 28 min |
| Aug 24, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry, Spalding | 26 min |
| Aug 24, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 25 min |
| Aug 24, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 53 min |
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.