Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 12, 1996, 3:41 PM EST for Haralson County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 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 12, 1996, 3:41 PM EST (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 12, 1996, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Haralson County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 12, 11:00 AM EST, 4 hours 41 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-130400- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1100 AM EST THU DEC 12 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER NORTHWESTERN AND WEST-CENTRAL PARTS OF GEORGIA. A WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS OVER GEORGIA WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI. A SURFACE COLD FRONT MOVING SLOWLY EAST AHEAD OF THE UPPER AIR FEATURE WILL TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS FROM MISSISSIPPI INTO WESTERN GEORGIA. DUE TO COLD DRY AIR ALOFT WITH THE UPPER DISTURBANCE...THE MAIN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREATS ARE STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WRS
Special weather statement, Dec 12, 11:05 AM EST, 4 hours 36 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-130400- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1100 AM EST THU DEC 12 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER NORTHWESTERN AND WEST-CENTRAL PARTS OF GEORGIA. A WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS OVER GEORGIA WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI. A SURFACE COLD FRONT MOVING SLOWLY EAST AHEAD OF THE UPPER AIR FEATURE WILL TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS FROM MISSISSIPPI INTO WESTERN GEORGIA. DUE TO COLD DRY AIR ALOFT WITH THE UPPER DISTURBANCE...THE MAIN SEbVERE THUNDERSTORM THREATS ARE STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WRS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 3:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson | 52 min |
| Dec 12, 5:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 34 min |
| Dec 12, 5:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 29 min |
| Dec 12, 5:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 41 min |
| Dec 12, 5:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 42 min |
| Dec 12, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 60 min |
| Dec 12, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 60 min |
| Dec 12, 6:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 39 min |
| Dec 12, 6:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 49 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.