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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 10, 1995Putnam County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1995, 5:14 PM EDT for Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 1995, 5:14 PM EDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Putnam County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 102115 RRA
SVRATL
GAC237-102200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
514 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...PUTNAM COUNTY
 
AT 512 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WAS OVER EATONTON. THE SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
 
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

Local storm report, Jun 10, 4:15 PM EDT, 59 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, 51 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, 39 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, 38 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, 35 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.

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:44 PM EDT, 30 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 ANND ALSO IN PICKENS COUNTY SOUTH
CAROLINA.
MOVEMEMT WAS TO THE EAAT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

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, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	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, 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

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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.