Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1996, 6:58 AM EST for Harris County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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, 6:58 AM EST (11:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1996, 7:30 AM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harris County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:57 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 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KATL 171159 RRA SVRATL GAC145-171230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 658 AM EST SUN MAR 17 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN HARRIS COUNTY AT 655 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING MULBERRY GROVE IN HARRIS COUNTY. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. 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 17, 5:41 AM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-161700- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 545 AM EST SUN MAR 17 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY AND TONIGHT FROM THE ATHENS AREA AND SOUTH. A COLD FRONT WILL BECOME STATIONARY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY. THIS COMBINED WITH A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND STRONG JETSTREAM WINDS WILL GIVE THE POSSIBILITY FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS NAND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. BDL
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 5:45 AM EST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-161700- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 545 AM EST SUN MAR 17 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY AND TONIGHT FROM THE ATHENS AREA AND SOUTH. A COLD FRONT WILL BECOME STATIONARY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY. THIS COMBINED WITH A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND STRONG JETSTREAM WINDS WILL GIVE THE POSSIBILITY FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. BDL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 5:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 49 min |
| Mar 17, 5:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 37 min |
| Mar 17, 5:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Warren | 41 min |
| Mar 17, 6:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock | 36 min |
| Mar 17, 7:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 31 min |
| Mar 17, 8:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 50 min |
| Mar 17, 8:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 42 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.