Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 18, 1995Murray County, Whitfield County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 8:52 PM EDT for Murray County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 18, 1995, 8:52 PM EDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 1995, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Murray County, GA, Whitfield County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1995-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1579 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1995-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 152 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1579 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1210 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
8.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 190051
SVRATL
GAC213-313-190145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
852 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHERN MURRAY COUNTY...EASTERN WHITFIELD COUNTY
 
AT 850 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DALTON IN
WHITFIELD COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWalker25 min
May 18, 9:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFannin49 min
May 19, 12:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJohnson, Laurens41 min
May 19, 1:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCScreven43 min
May 19, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBen Hill, Irwin, Turner59 min
May 19, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon50 min
May 19, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston48 min
May 19, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCScreven65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.