Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 287, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 6:09 PM EDT for Barrow County, Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1995, 6:09 PM EDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barrow County, GA, Walton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 212211 RRA SVRATL GAC013-297-212300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 609 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN BARROW COUNTY...NORTH CENTRAL WALTON COUNTY AT 609 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BOLD SPRINGS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS THROUGH BETHLEHAM AND CAMPTON IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. 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, 3:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 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 33 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 30 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
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 5:38 PM EDT, 31 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 5:39 PM EDT, 30 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.
Local storm report, Jul 21, 6:02 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
602 PM EDT FRI JUL 21 1995
TIME COUNTY EVENT
545 PM EDT MADISON SEVERAL TREES DOWN AT PIEDMONTE RD IN
z DANIELSVILLE...ALSO TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN AT HWY 29 S OF DANIELSVILLE.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, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.