Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 5:33 PM EDT for Madison County, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1995, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Madison County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 212138 RRA SVRATL GAC195-221-212215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 533 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY ...NORTHERN OGLETHORPE COUNTY AT 532 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN NEESE AND COLBERT IN MADISON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE TOWNS OF COMER...SMITHSONIA...AND PETER POINT ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 21, 3:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 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, 2 hours 14 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, 1 hour 47 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, 1 hour 45 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, 4:36 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 439 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 TIME COUNTY EVENT 430 PM EDT JONES SEVERE THUNDERSTORM REPORT OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL ON HIGHWAY 18 EAST OF JAMES.
Local storm report, Jul 21, 4:39 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 439 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 TIME COUNTY EVENT 430 PM EDT JONES SEVERE THUNDERSTORM REPORT OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL ON HIGHWAY 18 EAST OF JAMES. WWUS35KAVL 0
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, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson | 58 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.