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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS Atlanta, GA

December 1, 1996Carroll County, Heard County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 1, 1996, 3:13 AM EST for Carroll County, Heard County, 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 Carroll County, GA, Heard County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 51 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 57 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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	Coweta, Harris, Meriwether, Talbot, Troup	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996 Every 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.