Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 357, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 12, 1996, 5:48 PM EST for Heard County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report 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, 5:48 PM EST (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 12, 1996, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Heard County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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, 6:30 PM EST | Hail 1 | La Grange, 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 58 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.
000 TTAA00 KATL 122251 RRA SVRATL GAC149-285-122330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 548 PM EST THU DEC 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...TROUP COUNTY AT 545 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM WEDOWEE TO DADEVILLE IN ALABAMA MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THE LINE WILL CROSS THE GEORGIA STATE LINE AROUND 600 PM EST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DE8STRUCTIVE 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 DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, 5:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 41 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.