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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 269, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 12, 1995Houston County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1995, 1:45 AM EDT for Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 12, 1995, 1:45 AM EDT (05:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 1995, 2:30 AM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Houston County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 864 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2041 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 120547 RRA
SVRATL
GAC153-120630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
145 AM EDT WED JUL 12 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...HOUSTON COUNTY
 
AT 145 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES
NORTHEAST OF PERRY IN HOUSTON COUNTY. THE 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, Jul 11, 8:32 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
826 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995

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

645 PM    8 MILES W OF HAMILTON  GA         3 TREES WERE BROKEN OFF
          HARRIS                            WITH ONE BLOCKING GEORGIA
                                            HIGHWAY 129. HIGH WINDS AND
                                            FREQUENT LIGHTNING REPORTED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 10:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	46 min
Jul 11, 11:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Washington	25 min
Jul 11, 11:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson	29 min
Jul 12, 12:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens	30 min
Jul 12, 12:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens, Treutlen	54 min
Jul 12, 1:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge	49 min
Jul 12, 2:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery	41 min
Jul 12, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Habersham, Rabun	48 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.