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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 29, 1995Pike County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1995, 5:33 PM EDT for Pike County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1995, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 33 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 601 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
601 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 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 
TTAA00 KATL 292134 RRA
SVRATL
GAC231-292200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
533 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING WEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR INTO EASTERN PIKE COUNTY 6 MILES EAST OF
ZEBULON.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper, Monroe44 min
Jul 29, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Crawford44 min
Jul 29, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar, Spalding44 min
Jul 29, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Meriwether43 min
Jul 29, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette43 min
Jul 29, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.