Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 7:23 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1995, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Floyd County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 657 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KATL 032325 RRA SVRATL GAC115-040015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 723 PM EDT MON JUL 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...FLOYD COUNTY AT 722 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROME MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS OVER ROME AROUND 745 PM. 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 THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Jul 3, 4:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
GAZALL-032100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 435 PM EDT MON JUL 3 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EXTREME EAST AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ALTHOUGH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EXTREME EAST AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DIMINISHED. KM
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 6:36 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
ALZ048-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 636 PM EDT MON JUL 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 530 PM CDT...630 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUBURN TO 5 MILES WEST OF HURTSBORO TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLAYTON. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN RUSSELL COUNTY DURING THE NEXT THIRTY MINUTES. THIS LINE OF STORMS IS CAPABALE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 6:38 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
ALZ048-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 636 PM EDT MON JUL 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 530 PM CDT...630 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUBURN TO 5 MILES WEST OF HURTSBORO TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLAYTON. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN RUSSELL COUNTY DURING THE NEXT THIRTY MINUTES. THIS LINE OF STORMS IS CAPABALE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION.
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.