Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1995, 2:09 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1995, 2:09 PM EDT (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1995, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, GA, Washington County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 30, 11:45 AM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
GAZ005>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-311200- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1140 AM EDT TUE MAY 30 1995 WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON THEN DIMINISH THIS EVENING. NONE ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. A COLD FRONT MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA THIS MORNING IS EXPECTED TO DRIFT SLOWLY SOUTHWARD TO NEAR AN ATLANTA TO ATHENS LINE THIS AFTERNOON THEN BECOME STATIONARY. WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE OVER THE STATE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE FRONT AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIUGHT. HOWEVER SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS. ...........................NOTE.......................................... BEGINNING JUNE 1ST... THE NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED ONLY ON DAYS WHEN( THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER. THE DAILY ISSUANCE OF THE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK WILL RESUME MARCH 1ST 1996.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Johnson, Washington | 37 min |
| May 30, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Screven | 45 min |
| May 30, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Treutlen, Wheeler | 43 min |
| May 30, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 43 min |
| May 30, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 44 min |
| May 30, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jenkins | 53 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.