Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1996, 11:36 AM EST for Bleckley County, Dodge County, Pulaski County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 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, 11:36 AM EST (16:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1996, 12:30 PM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bleckley County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Pulaski County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:38 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 061637 TORATL GAC023-091-235-061730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1136 AM EST WED MAR 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN BLECKLEY COUNTY...DODGE COUNTY ...EASTERN PULASKI COUNTY AT 11:35 WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR HAWKINSVILLE IN PULASKI COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THE STORMS PATH WILL TAKE IT ACROSS EASTMAN IN DODGE COUNTY IN ABOUT 25 MINUTES. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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, 7:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 34 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, 11:49 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.