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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 17, 1996Pike County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1996, 5:11 AM EST for Pike County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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 17, 1996, 5:11 AM EST (10:11 UTC)
Expired
Mar 17, 1996, 6:00 AM EST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 33 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-03-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 477 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 270 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
477 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
4.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KATL 171012 RRA
SVRATL
GAC231-171100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
511 AM EST SUN MAR 17 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 510 AM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR
MOLENA IN PIKE COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS
STORM WILL APPROACH CONCORD AND ZEBULON DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 5:23 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether37 min
Mar 17, 5:49 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHancock, Warren41 min
Mar 17, 6:24 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGlascock36 min
Mar 17, 6:58 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris32 min
Mar 17, 7:29 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Jones31 min
Mar 17, 8:40 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter, Webster50 min
Mar 17, 8:48 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel42 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.