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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 6, 1996Wilcox County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1996, 12:45 PM EST for Wilcox County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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, 12:45 PM EST (17:45 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1996, 1:15 PM EST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Wilcox County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 192 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 061747
TORATL
GAC315-061815-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1245 PM EST WED MAR 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...WILCOX COUNTY
 
AT 12:45 PM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER
SEVILLE..MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL MOVE ACROSS PITTS..
ROCHELLE AND ABBEVILLE WITHIN THE NEXT 30 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 7:30 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris30 min
Mar 6, 7:56 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCMeriwether, Talbot34 min
Mar 6, 8:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMarion45 min
Mar 6, 8:06 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCMarion39 min
Mar 6, 8:15 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSchley, Taylor45 min
Mar 6, 8:26 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon, Sumter, Webster49 min
Mar 6, 8:44 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCCobb, Fulton4 hr
Mar 6, 8:44 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett4 hr
Mar 6, 8:47 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford, Peach43 min
Mar 6, 9:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Houston45 min
Mar 6, 9:22 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, Fulton53 min
Mar 6, 9:29 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge, Pulaski, Twiggs46 min
Mar 6, 10:20 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether, Troup40 min
Mar 6, 11:13 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Houston, Pulaski47 min
Mar 6, 11:36 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge, Pulaski54 min
Mar 6, 11:49 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens26 min
Mar 6, 12:06 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCLaurens54 min
Mar 6, 12:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Johnson, Treutlen47 min
Mar 6, 12:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp, Wilcox25 min
Mar 6, 1:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Telfair43 min
Mar 6, 1:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMarion, Talbot, Taylor51 min
Mar 6, 6:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Forsyth45 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.