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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 29, 1995Coweta County, Meriwether County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1995, 6:02 PM EDT for Coweta County, Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 29, 1995, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Coweta County, GA, Meriwether County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 28 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: 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 292202 RRA
SVRATL
GAC077-113-199-292245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
602 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN COWETA COUNTY...SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...EASTERN MERIWETHER COUNTY
 
AT 558 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PEACHTREE CITY
GEORGIA INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES WEST
OF ZEBULON TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF FAYETTEVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
WEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWN NEAR THE GRIFFIN
AREA IN SPALDING COUNTY WITH THESE STORMS.
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Monroe	44 min
Jul 29, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford	44 min
Jul 29, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Spalding	44 min
Jul 29, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	27 min
Jul 29, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	43 min
Jul 29, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.