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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 16, 1996Washington County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 1996, 4:52 PM EST for Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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, 4:52 PM EST (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 1996, 5:45 PM EST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 162152
TORATL
GAC303-162245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
452 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 4:45 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF TENNILLE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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, 1:56 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, 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.