Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 5:15 PM EST for Dougherty County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1996, 5:15 PM EST (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1996, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dougherty County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 5:40 PM EST | Hail 2.5 | Albany, GA |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 6, 2:57 PM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 2:57 PM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-062115- AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 255 PM EST WED MAR 6 1996 NGM AND ETA SIMILAR IN BRINGING SYSTEM THRU THE FCST AREA LATE TONIGHT AND ON THU. MDLS DVLP SFC LOW OVR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF DIXIE STATES BY 12Z THU WITH TROF AXIS EXTENDING TO CNTRL GLF CST RGN. SFC LOW THEN SWEEPS INTO CAROLINA'S/MID ATLANTIC LATE EVENING ON THU. PLENTY OF MSTR WILL BE TRANSPORTED INTO FA ON STRONG 850 JET (30-50 KTS). MODERATE TO STRONG INSTABILITY WITH LI'S -3 TO -5. DYNAMICS ALSO FAVOR SVR WX DVLPMNT WITH WIND PROFILES INDICATING FAIRLY HIGH HELICITIES. FRNT SHUD MOVE THRU FA EARLY THU EVENING WITH PLENTY OF CAA OVRNITE ON THU. FWC POPS AND TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE EXPECT FOR SOME ADJUSTMENTS. 1) 64/71/34/47 6820 2) 67/72/45/55 6720 3) 65/73/41/50 5730
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 3:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 33 min |
| Mar 6, 4:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 14 min |
| Mar 6, 4:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 29 min |
| Mar 6, 4:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 10:58 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Worth | 32 min |
| Mar 6, 11:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Turner | 39 min |
| Mar 6, 1:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Turner | 30 min |
| Mar 6, 1:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Turner | 36 min |
| Mar 6, 2:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Irwin | 51 min |
| Mar 6, 2:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill | 33 min |
| Mar 6, 2:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Tift, Worth | 33 min |
| Mar 6, 2:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Turner | 29 min |
| Mar 6, 3:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Irwin | 30 min |
| Mar 6, 3:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien | 37 min |
| Mar 6, 5:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Worth | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Thomas | 50 min |
| Mar 6, 6:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady | 26 min |
| Mar 6, 6:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur | 36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.