Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 7:54 PM EDT for Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1995, 7:54 PM EDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 290 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1053 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 282355 SVRATL GAC297-290045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 754 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN WALTON COUNTY AT 755 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTHWEST OF MONROE NEAR JERSEY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 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 28, 7:13 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-290115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 711 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995 AT 710 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL OVER NORTHERN GEORGIA. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER HARTWELL GEORGIA. A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED PEA SIZED HAIL AT ATHENS REGIONAL HOSPITAL AT 650 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND DISIPATE UNTIL AROUND 9 PM. ALL OF YOU IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND HAIL AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.