Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 356, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 12, 1996, 5:34 PM EST for Lamar County, Monroe County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 12, 1996, 5:34 PM EST (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 12, 1996, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lamar County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 6:00 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Barnesville, GA | |
| Dec 12, 6:00 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Thomaston, GA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
593 WUUS1 KATL 122237 RRA SVRATL GAC207-171-293-122315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 534 PM EST THU DEC 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MONROE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...LAMAR COUNTY...UPSON COUNTY AT 530 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF THOMASTON MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 64 min |
| 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, 5:48 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
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.