Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 347, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 1, 1996, 3:13 AM EST for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 62 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
- Dec 1, 1996, 3:13 AM EST (08:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 1, 1996, 4:15 AM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coweta County, GA, Harris County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 477 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 643 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
767 WUUS1 KATL 010814 RRA SVRATL GAC045-077-149-145-199-263-285-010915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 313 AM EST SUN DEC 1 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CARROLL COUNTY...COWETA COUNTY...HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...HARRIS COUNTY...MERIWETHER COUNTY...TALBOT COUNTY ...TROUP COUNTY AT 315 AM EST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WEDOWEE TO DADEVILLE TO TUSKEGEE ALABAMA MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL CROSS INTO GEORGIA BY 345 AM EST. 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. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT 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, Dec 1, 3:12 AM EST, 1 minute before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-011115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 312 AM EST SUN DEC 1 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY INCLUDING TORNADOES OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THROUGH THIS MORNING. A STRONG COLD FRONT OVER ALABAMA WILL INTO NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS MORNING AND INTO EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL BE PRECEDED BY THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY INCLUDE TORNADOES...WIND GUST TO 60 MPH...HAIL IN EXCESS OF 1/2 INCH...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL DIMINISH AFTER THE FRONT PASSES. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 3:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.