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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 19, 1995Screven County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 6:10 PM EDT for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Screven County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1139 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAGS 192208
SVRAGS
GAC251-192315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
610 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...SCREVEN COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 606 PM EDT WAS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
ALONG THE JENKINS - SCREVEN COUNTY LINE 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY
OF SYLVANIA. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 35 MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY 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 19, 4:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 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, 1 hour 39 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, 1 hour 26 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, 1 hour 23 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.

Local storm report, May 19, 5:30 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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

COUNTY...... BAKER, GEORGIA
SOURCE...... MITCHELL ELECTRIC CO.
TIME........ 130 PM EDT
LOCATION.... HWY 200...10 M`ILES WEST OF NEWTON
TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE...... NUMEROUS LARGE TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES.
INJURIES.... NONE REPORTED
DEATHS...... NONE REPORTED

Local storm report, May 19, 5:48 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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

COUNTY...... COLQUITT, GEORGIA
SOURCE...... COLQUITT ELECTRIC CO.
TIME........ 400 PM EDT
LOCATION.... 4 TO 6 MILES NORTH OF COLQUITT/THOMAS COUNTY LINE
TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE...... FEW LARGE TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES.
INJURIES.... NONE REPORTED
DEATHS...... NONE REPORTED

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, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon	50 min
May 19, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	48 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.