Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 7:48 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1995, 7:48 PM EDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1995, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laurens County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 252345 RRA SVRATL GAC175-260030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 748 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN LAURENS COUNTY AT 745 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF CADWELL IN SOUTHWEST LAURENS COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 25, 4:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
435 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 1995
TIME .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
800PM DUBLIN GA WIND BLEW IN PLATE GLASS WINDOW
7/24/95 LAURENS COUNTY AT AUTO DEALORSHIP. 7 VEHICLES
REPORTED DAMAGE BY FLYING
GLASS. REPORT FROM EMA AND
CONFIRMED BY AUTO DEALORSHIP.
EMA ALSO REPORTED SEVERAL TREES
BLOWN DOWN EASTERN PORTION OF
COUNTY.Local storm report, Jul 25, 4:39 PM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
435 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 1995
TIME .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENTS/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
800PM DUBLIN GA WIND BLEW IN PLATE GLASS WINDOW
7/24/95 LAURENS COUNTY AT AUTO DEALORSHIP. 7 VEHICLES
REPORTED DAMAGE BY FLYING
GLASS. REPORT FROM EMA AND
CONFIRMED BY AUTO DEALORSHIP.
EMA ALSO REPORTED SEVERAL TREES
BLOWN DOWN EASTERN PORTION OF
^ COUNTY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 48 min |
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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.