Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 8:26 AM EST for Macon County, Sumter County, Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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 6, 1996, 8:26 AM EST (13:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1996, 9:15 AM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Macon County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Webster County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:08 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 6, 8:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Preston, GA | |
| Mar 6, 8:50 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Americus, 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KATL 061327 RRA SVRATL GAC193-261-307-061415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 826 AM EST WED MAR 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MACON COUNTY...SUMTER COUNTY...WEBSTER COUNTY AT 825 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM BUTLER TO ELLAVILLE TO LUMPKIN MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 7:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 30 min |
| Mar 6, 7:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 8:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 8:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion | 39 min |
| Mar 6, 8:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley, Taylor | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 8:44 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 4 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:44 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 4 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 43 min |
| Mar 6, 9:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 9:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 9:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski, Twiggs | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 10:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 40 min |
| Mar 6, 11:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 11:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski | 54 min |
| Mar 6, 11:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 26 min |
| Mar 6, 12:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 54 min |
| Mar 6, 12:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Treutlen | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 12:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 25 min |
| Mar 6, 12:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 30 min |
| Mar 6, 1:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair | 43 min |
| Mar 6, 1:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot, Taylor | 51 min |
| Mar 6, 6:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.