Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 284, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 4:02 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Jones County, Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1995, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baldwin County, GA, Jones County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 212005 RRA SVRATL GAC009-169-319-212100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 402 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN JONES COUNTY ...WESTERN WILKINSON COUNTY AT 4 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR JAMES IN SOUTHEAST JONES COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN BALDWIN AND WESTERN WILKINSON COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. 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. l
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, 2:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 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, 1 hour 12 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.
Local storm report, Jul 21, 3:16 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
316 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995
TIME .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
240 PM PUTNAM CO GA 911 REPORTED HIGH WINDS
7/21/95 WITH TREES DOWN IN EATONTON
ALONG WITH DAMAGING LIGHTNING.Local storm report, Jul 21, 3:19 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
316 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995
TIME .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
240 PM PUTNARM CO GA 911 REPORTED HIGH WINDS
7/21/95 WITH TREES DOWN IN EATONTON
ALONG WITH DAMAGING LIGHTNING.Local storm report, Jul 21, 3:46 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 348 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 TIME COUNTY EVENT 230 PM JASPER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ...POWER LINES DOWN WITH TREES "FALLING AT MURDER CREEK BRIDGE AT HIGHWAY 16E...ALSO AT HIGHWAY 142.
Local storm report, Jul 21, 3:48 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 348 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 TIME COUNTY EVENT 230 PM JASPER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ...POWER LINES DOWN WITH TREES FALLING AT MURDER CREEK BRIDGE AT HIGHWAY 16E...ALSO AT HIGHWAY 142.
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, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Putnam | 65 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.