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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 15, 1996Greene County, Morgan County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 5:03 PM EST for Greene County, Morgan County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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: Mar 15, 1996, 5:03 PM EST (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 1996, 5:30 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Greene County, GA, Morgan County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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
Mar 15, 5:15 PM EST	Hail 1	Madison, 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KATL 152204 RRA
SVRATL
GAC133-211-152230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
503 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...GREENE COUNTY...MORGAN COUNTY
 
AT 4:55 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR SOCIAL CIRCLE IN WALTON COUNTY. A SECOND SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENSBORO IN GREENE
COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
 
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
DON'T 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, Mar 15, 12:35 PM EST, 4 hours 28 minutes before

GAZ006>017-023-151830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1235 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996

AT 1230 PM EST..WEATHER RADAR AT PEACHTREE CITY INDICATED A LINE OF
SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE EXTREME NORTHWEST
CORNER OF FANNIN COUNTY..SOUTHWEST TO CHATSWORTH IN MURRAY COUNTY..TO
NORTH OF CALHOUN IN GORDON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT GILMER
PICKENS..UNION.. LUMPKIN..TOWNS..WHITE..DAWSON..HALL..RABUN AND
HABERSHAM COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.

SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 50 MPH. THESE WIND GUSTS MAY TREE DAMAGE AND
TEMPORARY POWER OUTAGES.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

Special weather statement, Mar 15, 12:38 PM EST, 4 hours 25 minutes before

GAZ006>017-023-151830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1235 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996

AT 1230 PM EST..WEATHER RADAR AT PEACHTREE CITY INDICATED A LINE OF
SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE EXTREME NORTHWEST
CORNER OF FANNIN COUNTY..SOUTHWEST TO CHATSWORTH IN MURRAY COUNTY..TO
NORTH OF CALHOUN IN GORDON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT GILMER
PICKENS..UNION.. LUMPKIN..TOWNS..WHITE..DAWSON..HALL..RABUN AND
HABERSHAM COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.

SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 50 MPH. THESE WIND GUSTS MAY TREE DAMAGE AND
TEMPORARY POWER OUTAGES.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

Local storm report, Mar 15, 3:56 PM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
356 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1145 PM    CHICAMAUGA                GA   WIND DAMAGE
3/15/96    WALKER

220  PM    CANTON                    GA   WIND DAMAGE
3/15/96    CHEROKEE

230 PM     N ROME                    GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    FLOYD

330 PM     MARIETTA                  GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    COBB                           PUBLIC REPORTS VEHICLES
                                          DAMAGED NORTH OF TOWN

Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:04 PM EST, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
356 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1145 PM    CHICAMAUGA                GA   WIND DAMAGE
3/15/96    WALKER

220  PM    CANTON                    GA   WIND DAMAGE
3/15/96    CHEROKEE

230 PM     N ROME                    GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    FLOYD

330 PM     MARIETTA                  GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    COBB                           PUBLIC REPORTS VEHICLES
                                          DAMAGED NORTH OF TOWN

Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:48 PM EST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
448 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

355 PM     WASHINGTON                GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    WILKES

410 PM     ACWORTH                   GA   1.75 inch hail
3/15/96    COBB                           AT SHERIFFS OFFICE HAIL

400 PM                               GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    PAULDING                       HGHWY 92 N DIME TO NICKLE

440 PM     NEAR WINDER               GA   1.75 inch hail
3/15/96    OCONEE                         HAM RADIO OPERATOR REPORTS
                                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR HWY
                                          441.

410 PM     LEXINGTON                 GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    OGLETHORPE                     OCCURED AT 911 CENTER...ALSO
                                           REPORTED 1 TREE DOWN IN

210 PM     CANTON                    GA   1.00 inch hail
3/15/96    CHEROKEE

115 PM                               GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    CHATTOOGA

245 PM     SRN PART OF CNTY          GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    FORSYTH

Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:59 PM EST, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
448 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

355 PM     WASHINGTON                GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    WILKES

410 PM     ACWORTH                   GA   1.75 inch hail
3/15/96    COBB                           AT SHERIFFS OFFICE HAIL

400 PM                               GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    PAULDING                       HGHWY 92 N DIME TO NICKLE

440 PM     NEAR WINDER               GA   1.75 inch hail
3/15/96    OCONEE                         HAM RADIO OPERATOR REPORTS
                                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR HWY
                                          441.

410 PM     LEXINGTON                 GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    OGLETHORPE                     OCCURED AT 911 CENTER...ALSO
                                           REPORTED 1 TREE DOWN IN

210 PM     CANTON                    GA   1.00 inch hail
3/15/96    CHEROKEE

115 PM                               GA   0.75 inch hail
3/15/96    CHATTOOGA

245 PM     SRN PART OF CNTY          GA   0.75 inch Hhail
3/15/96    FORSYTH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 11:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	41 min
Mar 15, 1:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon	40 min
Mar 15, 1:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Gordon	33 min
Mar 15, 1:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	47 min
Mar 15, 2:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	52 min
Mar 15, 2:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	43 min
Mar 15, 2:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett	48 min
Mar 15, 2:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	60 min
Mar 15, 2:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker	40 min
Mar 15, 2:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Walton	40 min
Mar 15, 3:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	36 min
Mar 15, 3:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe	48 min
Mar 15, 3:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	43 min
Mar 15, 3:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Gwinnett, Walton	57 min
Mar 15, 3:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	48 min
Mar 15, 3:35 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bartow, Floyd	40 min
Mar 15, 3:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkes	42 min
Mar 15, 3:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	56 min
Mar 15, 4:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oconee, Oglethorpe	44 min
Mar 15, 4:05 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cobb	40 min
Mar 15, 4:18 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	27 min
Mar 15, 4:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton, Rockdale, Walton	48 min
Mar 15, 5:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Putnam	39 min
Mar 15, 5:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock	41 min
Mar 15, 5:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	61 min
Mar 15, 6:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Floyd	39 min
Mar 15, 6:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	31 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.