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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 19, 1995Macon County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 4:55 PM EDT for Macon County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Macon County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 219 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 192054
SVRATL
GAC193-192145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
455 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MACON COUNTY
 
AT 450 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF OGLETHORPE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY6 INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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

Local storm report, May 19, 3:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
300 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

COUNTY...... DOUGHERTY, GEORGIA
SOURCE...... ALBANY FIRE DEPT.
TIME........ 145 PM EDT
LOCATION.... EAST SIDE OF ALBANY
TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE...... 30 HOMES WITH ROOF DAMAGE (APPROX. $30,000)
             2 NEW CAR DEALERSHIPS WITH BUILDING AND CAR DAMAGE
                 (NO DOLLAR ESTIMATE)
INJURIES.... NONE REPORTED
DEATHS...... NONE REPLORTED

Local storm report, May 19, 3:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
330 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

COUNTY.....  BEN HILL (FIPS 017)
SOURCE.....  IRWIN COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP COOPERATIVE
TIME.......  220 PM EDT
LOCATIVON...  SOUTH OF BOWENS MILL GEORGIA ON HWY 129
TYPE STORM.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL.......  NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE.....  TREES DOWN ACROSS POWER LINES.
INJURIES...  NONE KNOWN
COST.......  UNKNOWN

Special weather statement, May 19, 4:28 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-192130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
429 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCDH FOR EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL
GEORGIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS BUT SEVERE
WEATHER IS NO LONGER A THREAT.

Special weather statement, May 19, 4:31 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

GAZ128-130-131-192235-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
432 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTOM WATCH IS EXTENDED FOR BEN HILL - IRWIN- AND
TURNER COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM EDT...

AT 430 PM RADAR IN MACON SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN
GEORGIA ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COLUMBUS TO AUGUSTA.

HEAVIEST RAINFALL OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL GEORGIA WAS OCCURRING FROM
SYLYESTER TO ASHBURN...AND JUST SOUTH OF OCILLA TO ALAPAHA.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO ORV TV STATION FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

Special weather statement, May 19, 4:44 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

GAZ120>127-129-142>147-192245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
443 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 452 HAS BEEN REPLACED BY SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 454 EFFECTIVE UNTIL 11 PM EDT FOR MOST OF
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...

AT 439 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE
NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHERN GEORGIA.  THE
STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.  THROUGHOUT THE
EVENING...STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP AND MOVE SWIFTLY ACROSS
SOUTH GEORGIA COUNTIES WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE
HAIL.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A
WARNING IS ISSUED.

Special weather statement, May 19, 4:47 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

GAZ029-192200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
445 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT INCLUDED ELBERT COUNTY OF
NORTHEAST GEORGIA IN NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker	25 min
May 18, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	53 min
May 18, 9:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	49 min
May 19, 12:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens	41 min
May 19, 1:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Screven	43 min
May 19, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Ben Hill, Irwin, Turner	59 min
May 19, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	48 min
May 19, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Screven	65 min

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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.