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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 27, 1995Cherokee County, Pickens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 4:23 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1995, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cherokee County, GA, Pickens County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 272024
SVRATL
GAC057-227-272100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
423 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY...SOUTHERN PICKENS COUNTY
 
AT 422 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES
NORTH OF CANTON MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 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.
STAY 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

Special weather statement, May 27, 11:18 AM EDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

GAZ005>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-281000-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1130 AM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.

MOIST UNSTABLE AIR REMAINS OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES.
CONSIDERABLE DAYTIME HEATING WILL ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS
AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING.

THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. SPOTTER
ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

MSS

Special weather statement, May 27, 3:46 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-272030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
345 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995

AT 335 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER ELBERT
COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF ELBERTON IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THIS STORM
WILL BE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR...MOVING THE
STORM OVER SOUTHERN HART COUNTY SHORTLY. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE
OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. SEEK SHELTER IF NEAR THIS
STORM.

ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...MANY WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
...WERE INDCIATED ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA...WEST
CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...SOUTHEASdT TENNESSEE...AND WESTERN NORTH
CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH
OF WASHINGTON IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND BETWEEN ROSWELL AND
LAWRENCEVILLE IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST
AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	26 min
May 27, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson	40 min
May 27, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Elbert, Hart	34 min
May 27, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks	49 min
May 27, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Habersham	59 min
May 27, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Stephens	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1995 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.