Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 260, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 5:39 PM EDT for Carroll County, Haralson County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, GA, Haralson County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 042141 RRA SVRATL GAC045-143-042230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 539 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CARROLL COUNTY...HARALSON COUNTY AT 538 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BREMEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 4, 2:37 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-120-042040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 237 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 AT 235 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS LEE COUNTY ALABAMA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND ARE MOVING INTO MUSCOGEE COUNTY. PERSONS WHO RESIDE IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AS SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL...GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 2:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-120-042040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 237 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 AT 235 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS LEE COUNTY ALABAMA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND ARE MOVING INTO MUSCOGEE COUNTY. PERSONS WHO RESIDE IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AS SOME OF THXESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL...GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 9:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer, Pickens | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 9:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin | 27 min |
| Jul 4, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 49 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.