Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1996, 1:56 PM EST for Clayton County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 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, 1:56 PM EST (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1996, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clayton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 23 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 WUUS1 KATL 161857 RRA SVRATL GAC063-199-162000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 156 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CLAYTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MERIWETHER COUNTY AT 155 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF GREENVILLE IN MERIWETHER COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO PIKE COUNTY BY 215 PM EST. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 47 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 47 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, 1:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 40 min |
| Mar 16, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 60 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.