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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 235, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 17, 1995Gwinnett County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1995, 5:41 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 1995, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Gwinnett County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 172142 RRA
SVRATL
GAC135-172230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
541 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...GWINNETT COUNTY
 
AT 540 PM EDT THE PEACHTREE CITY WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM AROUND 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAWRENCEVILLE. THE
SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 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 17, 4:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes 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    MARIETTA                GA     DIME SIZED HAIL.
          COBB

Local storm report, Jun 17, 5:03 PM EDT, 38 minutes 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....

450 PM    ARMUCHEE               GA         DIME-SIZE HAIL
          FLOYD

456 PM    POCATALIGO              GA        1 INCH HAIL
          MADISON

Local storm report, Jun 17, 5:04 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
503 PM EDT SAT JUN 17 1995

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

450 PM    ARMUCHEE               GA         DIME-SIZE HAIL
          FLOYD

456 PM    POCATALIGO              GA        1 INCH HAIL
          MADISON

Local storm report, Jun 17, 5:29 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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

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

500 PM    LINDALE                GA         DIME-SIZE HAIL
          FLOYD

525 PM    KINGSTON               GA        DIME-SIZE HAIL
          BARTOW

Local storm report, Jun 17, 5:33 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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

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

500 PM    HIRAM                  GA         DIME-SIZE HAIL
          PAULDING

Local storm report, Jun 17, 5:35 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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

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

500 PM    HIRAM                  GA         DIME-SIZE HAIL
          PAULDING

 KINGSTON               GA        DIME-SIZE HAIL
          BARTOW

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, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	27 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, 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.