Tornado Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

Mar 15, 1996, 4:05 PM EST (21:05 UTC)

Expired

Mar 15, 1996, 4:45 PM EST

In force

40 min

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Whole counties

County Cobb County, GA

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 152106
TORATL
GAC067-152145-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
405 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...COBB COUNTY
 
AT 4:00 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF KENNESAW MOVING TO
THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL MOVE INTO THE
KENNESAW AND MARIETTA AREAS BY 4:20 PM.
 
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.

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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.