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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 320, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 3, 19955 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 4:25 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 1995, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 1995, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Butts County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA, Spalding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 31 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: 345 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 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 032025 RRA
SVRATL
GAC009-169-207-035-159-237-255-171-199-231-032115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
425 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...BALDWIN COUNTY...JONES COUNTY...MONROE COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...BUTTS COUNTY...JASPER COUNTY...PUTNAM COUNTY
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...SPALDING COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...LAMAR COUNTY...MERIWETHER COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 420 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH AT 40 MILE AN HOUR. THESE STORMS EXTENDED
FROM JUST SOUTH OF MANCHESTER TO ROBERTA TO MACON TO IRWINTON. STRONG
DAMAGING WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS WITHIN THE PAST
HOUR.
 
 
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

Local storm report, Aug 3, 12:02 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1202 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

420 PM     JEFFERSONVILLE            GA   WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95     TWIGGS                         SEVERAL TREES DOWN JUST EAST
                                          OF JEFFERSOVILLE.

545 PM     NEWNAN                    GA   WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95     COWETA                         LARGE LIMB 3 FEET DIAMTER
                                          DOWN IN FRONT OF MUNICIPAL
                                          BUILDING REPORTED BY OFF DUTY
                                          WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE

630 PM     5N DALLAS                 GA   WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95     PAULDING                       2 LARGE TREES DOWN ON POWER
                                          LINES WITH 1087 CUSTOMERS OUT
                                           OF POWER. REPORTED BY
                                          GREYSTONE POWER CO.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson	32 min
Aug 3, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Peach, Taylor	32 min
Aug 3, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot, Upson	32 min
Aug 3, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones, Putnam	50 min
Aug 3, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Monroe	50 min
Aug 3, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	35 min
Aug 3, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Henry, Newton, Spalding	53 min
Aug 3, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette, Heard	53 min
Aug 3, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	27 min
Aug 3, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	36 min
Aug 3, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	36 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.