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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 26, 1995Lamar County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT for Lamar County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Lamar County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 47 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KATL 262038 RRA
SVRATL
GAC171-262130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
440 PM EDT WED JUL 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...LAMAR COUNTY
 
AT 437 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTROM NEAR MILNER MOVING
NORTHEAST ABOUT 12 MPH. THIS STORM MAY BE ACCOMPNID BY DAMANGING 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 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

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 12:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 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, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	44 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1995 Every 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.