Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 12:38 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1995, 12:38 PM EDT (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1995, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gwinnett County, GA, Walton County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1778 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 211641 RRA SVRATL GAC297-135-211745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1238 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...WALTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN GWINNETT COUNTY AT 1236 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH GWINNETT COUNTY NEAR CENTERVILLE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE STORM WILL ENTER WALTON COUNTY AROUND 1 PM. 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
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 11:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-091> 098-103>113-212200- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1130 AM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY IN THE AREA FROM CHATTANOOGA TO ATLANTA TO COLUMBUS. AN UPPER ATMOSPHERE DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. THIS...IN COMBINATION WITH MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL PRODUCE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE. SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THEY ARE NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 11:38 AM EDT, 1 hour before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-091> 098-103>113-212200- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1130 AM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY IN THE AREA FROM CHATTANOOGA TO ATLANTA TO COLUMBUS. AN UPPER ATMOSPHERE DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. THIS...IN COMBINATION WITH MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL PRODUCE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE. SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THEY ARE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 55 min |
| Jul 21, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Putnam | 65 min |
| Jul 21, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson | 58 min |
| Jul 21, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 42 min |
| Jul 21, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Newton | 43 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.