Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Nov 7, 1996, 9:31 PM EST for Haralson County, Georgia. It was in force for 19 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
- Nov 7, 1996, 9:31 PM EST (02:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 9:50 PM EST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Haralson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:34 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 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 700 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.8
- Supercell composite
- -3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 080232 TORATL GAC143-080245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 931 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...HARALSON COUNTY AT 925 PM WEATHER RADAR HAS INDICATED A TORNADO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH NEAR BUCHANAN. SOME DAMAGED HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 7:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 39 min |
| Nov 7, 9:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Heard | 31 min |
| Nov 7, 9:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 26 min |
| Nov 7, 9:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 33 min |
| Nov 7, 11:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 36 min |
| Nov 7, 11:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 25 min |
| Nov 8, 1:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 27 min |
| Nov 8, 4:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston | 27 min |
| Nov 8, 6:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 30 min |
| Nov 8, 6:22 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 38 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.