Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 1996, 6:24 PM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report 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 16, 1996, 6:24 PM EST (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1996, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Emanuel County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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 16, 6:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Park, 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 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 162324 TORATL GAC209-107-283-279-170015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 624 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN EMANUEL COUNTY...TREUTLEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA ...NORTHERN TOOMBS COUNTY AT 620 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO CROSSING HIGHWAY 15 FIVE MILES NORTH OF TERRYTOWN MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE TOWNS OF NORMANTOWN AND OAKPARK ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM. 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 F$LOOR. 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, 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, 6:27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.