Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1996, 1:56 PM EST for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 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 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 Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 38 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2:15 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Alvaton, 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 | Clayton | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.