Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT for Cobb County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cobb County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1935 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 151946 SVRATL GAC067-152030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 345 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...COBB COUNTY AT 344 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF KENNESAW GEORGIA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM SHOULD TRACK SOUTHEAST ALONG HIGHWAY 41 INTO MARIETTA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND 6VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, May 15, 11:08 AM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
GAZ005>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-152200- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1108 AM EDT MON MAY 15 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. A FRONTAL SYSTEM OVER TENNESSEE WILL BE THE FOCUS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH INTO NORTHERN GEORGIA WITH VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR BY 3 PM. AFTERNOON HEATING IN THE 80S TO AROUND 90 WILL INCREASE THE CONVECTIVE ENERGY NEEDED FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. XSPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ATLANTA TO ATHENS. KDF
Special weather statement, May 15, 2:47 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
GAZ017-018-026-028-029-152045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 244 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF GEORGIA AND INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF HABERSHAM...STEPHENS...FRANKLIN...HART AND ELBERTON OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS MONDAY EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 23 min |
| May 15, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 48 min |
| May 15, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 41 min |
| May 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Monroe | 45 min |
| May 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan | 45 min |
| May 15, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 40 min |
| May 15, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 43 min |
| May 15, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Peach | 43 min |
| May 15, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski | 54 min |
| May 15, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 54 min |
| May 15, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 46 min |
| May 15, 7:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens, Wheeler | 36 min |
| May 15, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen, Wheeler | 43 min |
| May 15, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 43 min |
| May 15, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Ben Hill, Turner | 61 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.