Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 4:25 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Jones County, Putnam County, 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 Baldwin County, GA, Jones County, GA, Putnam County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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 106 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.
- 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
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.
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 | Butts, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 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
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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.