Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 5:34 PM EST for Hancock County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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
- Mar 15, 1996, 5:34 PM EST (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 1996, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KATL 152235 RRA SVRATL GAC141-152315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 534 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...HANCOCK COUNTY AT 530 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR OVER LAKE OCONEE 15 MILES SOUTH OF GREENSBORO MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO THE SPARTA AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. 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 59 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 56 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 38 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 TOWNLocal storm report, Mar 15, 4:04 PM EST, 1 hour 30 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 TOWNLocal storm report, Mar 15, 4:48 PM EST, 46 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 FORSYTHLocal storm report, Mar 15, 4:59 PM EST, 35 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 FORSYTHThe 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, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 27 min |
| Mar 15, 5:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 39 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
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.