Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 316, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 29, 1995Harris County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1995, 6:42 PM EDT for Harris County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1995, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Harris County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 80 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 292244
SVRATL
GAC145-292330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
642 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...HARRIS COUNTY
 
AT 640 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PEACHTREE CITY
GEORGIA WAS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR FRANKLIN IN HARRIS
COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING WEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL
BE MOVING ACROSS THE CALLAWAY GARDENS AREA.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCPTIVE 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

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 6:12 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-120-292315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
612 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 1995

AT 610 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
STRETCHING FROM 10 MILES EAST OF LAGRANGE TO 10 MILES EAST OF EUFAULA.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 25 MPH.

RESIDENTS OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD BE ON
THE LOOKOUT FOR FAST APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS.

STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 6:13 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-120-292315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
612 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 1995

AT 610 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
STRETCHING FROM 10 MILES EAST OF LAGRANGE TO 10 MILES EAST OF EUFAULA.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 25 MPH.

RESIDENTS OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD BE ON
THE LOOKOUT FOR FAST APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS.

STRONG GUSTY WIND...FRE4QUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.

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, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPike27 min
Jul 29, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Meriwether43 min
Jul 29, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1995Every 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.