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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 1996, 4:18 PM EST for DeKalb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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 15, 1996, 4:18 PM EST (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 1996, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties DeKalb County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 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 152118 TORATL GAC089-121-152145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 418 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 LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...DE KALB COUNTY...NORTHERN FULTON COUNTY AT 4:15 PM EST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR MARIETTA MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER THE SANDY SPRINGS...NORTH ATLANTA...CHAMBLEE AND TUCKER AREAS DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN COBB COUNTY DURING THE PAST 10 MINUTES. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 11:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 41 min |
| Mar 15, 1:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 1:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 1:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 2:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 52 min |
| Mar 15, 2:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 2:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 48 min |
| Mar 15, 2:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 60 min |
| Mar 15, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 3:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 48 min |
| Mar 15, 3:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 3:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Walton | 57 min |
| Mar 15, 3:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 48 min |
| Mar 15, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 3:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 3:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 56 min |
| Mar 15, 4:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee, Oglethorpe | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 4:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 4:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale, Walton | 48 min |
| Mar 15, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 27 min |
| Mar 15, 5:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 5:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 41 min |
| Mar 15, 5:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 61 min |
| Mar 15, 6:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 6:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 31 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.