Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 6:14 PM EDT for Franklin County, Georgia. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1995, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 2123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 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 KAHN 092217 RRA SVRAHN GAC119-092315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 614 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 613 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN EASTERN BANKS COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE IN FRANKLIN COUNTY BY 630 PM EDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION 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, Jun 9, 5:37 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
GAZ124-092240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 539 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 531 EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN TERRELL COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF DAWSON GEORGIA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE "STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:39 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
GAZ124-092240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 539 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 531 EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN TERRELL COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF DAWSON GEORGIA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stephens | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1995Every 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.