Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1995, 4:41 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1995, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 1387 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 102042 RRA SVRATL GAC199-263-269-102130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 441 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MERIWETHER COUNTY...TALBOT COUNTY...TAYLOR COUNTY AT 440 PM WEATHER SEVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WARM SPRINGS AND JUNCTION CITY GEORGIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 10, 2:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-102000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 235 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995 A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL BE MOVING ACROSS RABUN...HABERSHAM...STEPHENS...AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF CLEVELAND AND JUST EAST OF CORNELIA IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SEEK SHELTER IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SO PEOPLE IN HART AND ELBERT COUNTIES SHOULD ALSO BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE INDICATED ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA INTO NORTHEAST ALABAMA... EAST TENNESSEE...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...AND THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SpOUTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA AND OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA 10 MILES WEST OF FORT VALLEY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Jun 10, 4:15 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
415 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995
TIME COUNTY EVENT
340 - HOUSTON SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...WINDS KNOCKED SEVERAL TREES
405 PM AND POWERLINES DOWN IN HENDERSON...QUARTER SIZED
HAIL REPORTED IN PERRY.Local storm report, Jun 10, 4:23 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
415 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995
TIME COUNTY EVENT
340 - HOUSTON SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...WINDS KNOCKED SEVERAL TREES
405 4PM AND POWERLINES DOWN IN HENDERSON...QUARTER SIZED
HAIL REPORTED IN PERRY.Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:35 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-102000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 435 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995 A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL ARE LOCATED IN WHITE AND HALL COUNTIES AND ARE GOING TO BE IN HABERSHAM AND STEPHENS COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SEEK SHELTER IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SO PEOPLE IN HART AND ELBERT COUNTIES SHOULD ALSO BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE INDICATED ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA INTO NORTHEAST ALABAMA... EAST TENNESSEE...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...AND THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST EAST OF COLUMBUS GEORGIA AND ALSO IN PICKENS COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA. MOVEMEMT WAS TO THE EAAT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Jun 10, 4:36 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
436 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995
TIME(EST) CITY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
DATE COUNTY
240 PM SMITHVILLE GA SEVERAL LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN
06/10/95 LEE JUST SOUTH OF SMITHVILLE
SOURCE...LEE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE.Local storm report, Jun 10, 4:39 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
436 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995
TIME(EST) CITY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
DATE COUNTY
240 PM SMITHVILLE GA SEVERAL LARGE T.REES BLOWN DOWN
06/10/95 LEE JUST SOUTH OF SMITHVILLE
SOURCE...LEE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Macon | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones, Monroe | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 69 min |
| Jun 10, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | White | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot, Taylor | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham | 40 min |
| Jun 10, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 53 min |
| Jun 10, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 50 min |
| Jun 10, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Fulton | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.