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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 273, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 16, 1995Hart County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 4:47 PM EDT for Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 4:47 PM EDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Hart County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 179 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 982 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -58 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
982 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-19 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 KAHN 162048 RRA
SVRAHN
GAC147-162145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
447 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...HART COUNTY
 
AT 445 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN HART
COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 5 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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 16, 3:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
ALZ048-162010-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
309 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

AT 304 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN NORTHWEST RUSSELL COUNTY...APPROXIMATELY 10
MILES NORTH OF HURTSBORO ALABAMA.  STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 5 TO 10
MPH.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHabersham, Rabun55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.