Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 1995, 9:41 PM EST for McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1995, 9:41 PM EST (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1995, 10:30 PM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County McDuffie County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 170238 RRA SVRCAE GAC189-170330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 941 PM EST THU FEB 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN GEORGIA ...MCDUFFIE COUNTY AT 940 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO MCDUFFIE COUNTY AROUND 950 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. AMATEUR RADIO AND OTHER SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO MONITOR THIS STORM AND RELAY REPORTS PROMPTLY T4O THE NEAREST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. SJN
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 8:09 PM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
GAZ039-061-062-074>076-085>088-SCZ040-170310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 809 PM EST THU FEB 16 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EST FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EAST-CENTRAL GEORGIA - WILKES - HANCOCK - WARREN - WASHINGTON - GLASCOCK - JEFFERSON AND ALLENDALE COUNTY OF WEST-CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA... WEATHER RADAR AT 805 PM EST INDICATED A LEADING EDGE OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO NEAR THE CITY OF MILLEDGEVILLE IN GEORGIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 8:12 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
GAZ039-061-062-074>076-085>088-SCZ040-170310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 809 PM EST THU FEB 16 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EST FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EAST-CENTRAL GEORGIA - WILKES - HANCOCK - WARREN - WASHINGTON - GLASCOCK - JEFFERSON AND ALLENDALE COUNTY OF WEST-CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA... WEATHER RADAR AT 805 PM EST INDICATED A LEADING EDGE OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO NEAR THE CITY OF MILLEDGEVILLE IN GEORGIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH vMEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.
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.