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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 31, 1995Dodge County, Telfair County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1995, 11:17 PM EDT for Dodge County, Telfair County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 1995, 11:17 PM EDT (03:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1995, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dodge County, GA, Telfair County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 390 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 010320 RRA
SVRATL
GAC091-271-010400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1117 PM EDT WED MAY 31 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY...NORTHERN TELFAIR COUNTY
 
AT 1116 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY NEAR RHINE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTIO\N 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 31, 6:12 PM EDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-312310-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
608 PM EDT WED MAY 31 1995

AT 600 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOPING IN RUSSELL COUNTY ALABAMA.  THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT
DANGEROUS LIGTHNING.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL
MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA INCLUDING THE COLUMBUS
METRO AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR
FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION.

Local storm report, May 31, 6:46 PM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
643 PM EDT WED MAY 31 1995

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

631 PM      WASHINGTON   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
                         GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
                         ON HWY 24 WEST.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 12:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	60 min
Jun 1, 12:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	3 hr
Jun 1, 12:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Montgomery	3 hr
Jun 1, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Macon	53 min
Jun 1, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones, Monroe	50 min
Jun 1, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Turner	30 min
Jun 1, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Treutlen	57 min
Jun 1, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox	47 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.