Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1996, 5:59 PM EDT for Madison County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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
- May 7, 1996, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 6:00 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Pocataligo, GA | |
| May 7, 6:00 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Danielsville, 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 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 072158 TORATL GAC195-072230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 559 PM EDT TUE MAY 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...WESTERN MADISON COUNTY AT 555 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POCATALIGO MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS SHOULD TAKE THE STORM NEAR DANIELSVILLE AROUND 615 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD W,ITH YOUR HANDS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 56 min |
| May 7, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 33 min |
| May 7, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 29 min |
| May 7, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 31 min |
| May 7, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 37 min |
| May 7, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 42 min |
| May 7, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 39 min |
| May 7, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 41 min |
| May 7, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 47 min |
| May 7, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 44 min |
| May 7, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 37 min |
| May 7, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 34 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.