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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 1996, 5:20 PM EST for Emanuel County, Jefferson County, Johnson County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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, 5:20 PM EST (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1996, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Emanuel County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 162220 TORATL GAC107-163-167-162300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 520 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...NORTHERN EMANUEL COUNTY...SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY ...NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY AT 518 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER HIGHWAY 319 IN NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE MOTION OF THIS STORM WILL TAKE IT THROUGH EXTREME SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY AND THE CITY OF SUMMERTOWN IN NORTHERN EMANUEL COUNTY. 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, 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, 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 |
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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.