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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 17, 1995Cobb County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1995, 4:18 PM EDT for Cobb County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 1995, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Cobb County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 172019 RRA
SVRATL
GAC067-172045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
418 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...WESTERN COBB COUNTY
 
AT 418 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KENNESAW MOVING
SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR MARIETTA.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERST~ORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
 
 
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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 17, 2:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
235 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 1995

TIME      .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
          ....COUNTY LOCATION....

201 PM    10S B$LAIRSVILLE         GA     DIME SIZED HAIL COVERED
          UNION                          THE GROUND.

Special weather statement, Jun 17, 2:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-171900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
235 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 1995

...MORE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADED FOR THE EXTREME NORTHEAST
   CORNER OF GEORGIA...

AT 230 EDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AROUND LAKE TOXAWAY AND OVER NORTHWEST
SOUTH CAROLINA JUST NORTH AND WEST OF WALHALLA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE ENTERING
RABUN AND HABERSHAM COUNTIES. THESES THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND
SMALL HAIL. SEEK SHELTER AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASSED OVER YOUR AREA.

ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...
CONTINUED ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE MOUNTAIN AREAS OF NORTH GEORGIA
AND ACROSS WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE LOCATED JUST EAST OF JASPER AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DAHLONEGA
GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE WEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

Local storm report, Jun 17, 2:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
300 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 1995

TIME      .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
          ....COUNTY LOCATION....

240 PM    5E MU0RRAYVILLE          GA     DIME SIZED HAIL.
          HALL

245 PM    3NW MURRAYVILLE         GA     DIME SIZED HAIL.
          LUMPKIN

Local storm report, Jun 17, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
300 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 1995

TIME      .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
          ....COUNTY LOCATION....

240 PM    5E MURRAYVILLE          GA     DIME SIZED HAIL.
          HALL

245 PM    3NW MURRAYVILLE         GA     DIME SIZED HAIL.
          LUMPKIN

Local storm report, Jun 17, 3:35 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
300 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 1995

TIME      .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
          ....COUNTY LOCATION....

329 PM    FAIRMhOUNT               GA     DIME SIZED HAIL.
          GORDON

Local storm report, Jun 17, 4:17 PM EDT, 1 minute before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
420 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 1995

TIME      .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
          ....COUNTY LOCATION....

400 PM    MARIE|TTA                GA     DIME SIZED HAIL.
          COBB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns	42 min
Jun 17, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, Union	48 min
Jun 17, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Hall, Lumpkin	53 min
Jun 17, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Pickens	45 min
Jun 17, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Union	33 min
Jun 17, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Gordon	54 min
Jun 17, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Habersham, Stephens	32 min
Jun 17, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray	50 min
Jun 17, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Gordon	40 min
Jun 17, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jackson, Madison	65 min
Jun 17, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	48 min
Jun 17, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Paulding	46 min
Jun 17, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	49 min
Jun 17, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Elbert	38 min
Jun 17, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	51 min
Jun 17, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe	45 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.