Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 286, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 5:39 PM EDT for Macon County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1995, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 212141 RRA SVRATL GAC193-212230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 539 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MACON COUNTY AT 539 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GARDEN VALLEY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 3:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 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 51 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, 1 hour 3 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, 1 hour 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
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 5:38 PM EDT, 1 minute before
ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-120-212340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 538 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 AT 535 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. RESIDENT OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER THIS EVENING AS THESE STORMS MOVE OVER THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL...GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 5:39 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-120-212340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 538 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 AT 535 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. RESIDENT OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER THIS EVENING AS THESE STORMS MOVE OVER THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL...GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
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, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 42 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.