Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1996, 1:20 PM EST for Coweta County, Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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 16, 1996, 1:20 PM EST (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1996, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coweta County, GA, Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 161821 RRA SVRATL GAC077-199-161900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 120 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...COWETA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MERIWETHER COUNTY AT 119 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF LAGRANGE GEORGIA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM SHOULD PASS THROUGH THE CITIES OF LONE OAK AND LUTHERSVILLE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPAR8E FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 16, 11:09 AM EST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-170000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1108 AM EST SAT MAR 16 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A WARM FRONT EXTENDED FROM THE CAROLINAS ACROSS TENNESSEE INTO LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHEAST ARKANSAS. THIS PUT GEORGIA IN THE WARM MOIST UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE ACROSS GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AND THIS WILL AID IN THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. KM
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 11:09 AM EST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-170000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1108 AM EST SAT MAR 16 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A WARM FRONT EXTENDED FROM THE CAROLINAS ACROSS TENNESSEE INTO LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHEAST ARKANSAS. THIS PUT GEORGIA IN THE WARM MOIST UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE ACROSS GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AND THIS WILL AID IN THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. KM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 7:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 7:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 7:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 38 min |
| Mar 15, 8:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 8:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Newton | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 1:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 60 min |
| Mar 16, 1:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 1:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 1:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 61 min |
| Mar 16, 2:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pike | 63 min |
| Mar 16, 2:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 2:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 2:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 49 min |
| Mar 16, 3:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 3:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jones | 53 min |
| Mar 16, 4:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 4:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Wilkinson | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 4:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 4:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 4:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 4:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Washington | 53 min |
| Mar 16, 5:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Wilkinson | 56 min |
| Mar 16, 5:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson | 40 min |
| Mar 16, 6:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 45 min |
| Mar 16, 6:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen | 51 min |
| Mar 16, 6:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.