Tornado Warning 19, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

Mar 18, 1996, 10:02 PM EST (03:02 UTC)

Expired

Mar 18, 1996, 10:45 PM EST

In force

43 min

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas County, GA

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 190301
TORATL
GAC045-097-190345-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1002 PM EST MON MAR 18 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...CARROLL COUNTY...DOUGLAS COUNTY
 
AT 955 PM EST A TORNADO WAS INDICATED ON RADAR 5 MILES SOUTH OF
CARROLLTON MOVING NORTHEAST 35 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 BLAN`KETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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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.