Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1996, 7:56 AM EST for Meriwether County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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 6, 1996, 7:56 AM EST (12:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1996, 8:30 AM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Meriwether County, GA, Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 061258 TORATL GAC199-263-061330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 756 AM EST WED MAR 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN MERIWETHER COUNTY...NORTHERN TALBOT COUNTY AT 755 AM EST WEATHER RADARS INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR THE HARRIS..TALBOT AND MERIWEATHER COUNTY LINES MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. 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 6, 7:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 30 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, 8:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Sumter, Webster | 49 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
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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.