Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 301, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 4:31 PM EDT for Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1995, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1995, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 1193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1069 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 262029 RRA SVRATL GAC207-262115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 431 PM EDT WED JUL 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY AT 428 WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF FORSYTH MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 12 MPH. THIS STORM MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY DAMAGING WINDS. 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 POSSIBLBE 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
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 12:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-091> 098-103>113-262200- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 12 NOON EDT TUE JUL 26 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AFTERNOON HEATING COMBINED WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL PRODUCE WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THEY ARE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Warren | 54 min |
| Jul 26, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar | 50 min |
| Jul 26, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston | 54 min |
| Jul 26, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 26 min |
| Jul 26, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 49 min |
| Jul 26, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Wilkinson | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 51 min |
Nearby
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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.