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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 27, 1995Elbert County, Hart County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 4:56 PM EDT for Elbert County, Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1995, 4:56 PM EDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Elbert County, GA, Hart County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 KAHN 272057
SVRAHN
GAC105-147-272130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
456 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHERN ELBERT COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN HART COUNTY
 
AT 455 PM EDT...ATHENS RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE
BORDER OF ELBERT AND HART COUNTIES. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL ABPPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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 38 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, 1 hour 10 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.

Local storm report, May 27, 4:50 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
457 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

415 PM EDT  FORSYTH     SVR TSTM   DOWNED POWER LINES, TREES
                                   WITH HIGH WIND AND LIGHTNING.

Local storm report, May 27, 4:54 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
501 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

436 PM EDT    MORGAN     BUCKHEAD-FIRE STARTED BY LIGHTNING.
                          FIRE IN A FIELD.

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, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	37 min
May 27, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson	40 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

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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.