Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 283, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 2:55 PM EDT for Hancock County, Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1995, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1995, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, GA, Putnam County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 211858 RRA SVRATL GAC141-237-212000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 255 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...WESTERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 254 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WILLARD IN WESTERN PUTNAM COUNTY...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND NEARLY CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING ARE OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE CITY OF FLAT ROCK IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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 21, 11:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 25 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, 3 hours 17 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, 2:49 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-212045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 249 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 AT 245 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE NORTHERN PORTION OF A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING THROUGH ELBERT COUNTY. OTHER STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING THROUGH HABERSHAM AND RABUN COUNTIES. ALL OF YOU IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT INTO THE EVENING FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A STRONG BUILDING IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA...THE CAROLINAS AND ALABAMA. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHWEST OF AUGUSTA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 2:50 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-212045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 249 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 AT 245 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE NORTHERN PORTION OF A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING THROUGH ELBERT COUNTY. OTHER STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING THROUGH HABERSHAM AND RABUN COUNTIES. ALL OF YOU IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT INTO THE EVENING FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A STRONG BUILDING IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA...THE CAROLINxAS AND ALABAMA. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHWEST OF AUGUSTA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 12:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 67 min |
| Jul 21, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 55 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.