Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 5:48 PM EDT for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1995, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 032148 RRA SVRATL GAC045-032215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 548 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CARROLL COUNTY AT 545 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTY BETWEEN ROOPVILLE AND WHITESBURG. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. 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.
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, 5 hours 46 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.Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:52 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
452 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
330 PM MCCREE GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 TELFAIR TREES DOWN...LIMBS DOWN IN
405 PM PERRY GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 HOUSTON POWERLINES DOWN
435 PM HAMILTON GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 HARRIS TREES DOWN ON HWY 27
400 PM WARNER ROBBINS GA 65 MPH TSTM GUST
8/3/95 HOUSTON
415 PM 15E ROBERTA GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 CRAWFORD LARGE TREES DOWN ON MARSHALL
MILL ROAD...SOME ON POWER
4:50 PM WOODLAND COMMUNITY GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 TALBOT TREES AND POWERLINES DOWNED
4:50 PM ATWATER GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 UPSON SEVERAL TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWNED.
433-450 PM HAMILTON GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 HARRIS TREES DOWN
425-525 PM MACON GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 BIBB SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN ON
THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CITY
POWER LINES DOWNED.
509 PM 3N JEFFERSONVILLE GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 TWIGGS TWO LARGE TREES DOWN IN AREA.
600 PM EAST POINT GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 FULTON POWER LINES DOWN.
545 PM MORELAND GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 COWETA POWER LINES DOWN.
540 PM 6E HAMPTON GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 MCDONOUGH POWER LINES DOWN.
HENRY TREES DOWNED
600 PM 7NW HAMPTON GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 CLAYTON ONE LARGE TREE DOWNED
430 PM SMARR GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 MONROE A COUPLE OF TREES WERE DOWN
ON POWERLINES...POWER OUTAGES
555 PM CARROLLTON GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 CARROLL ONE LARGE TREE AND SEVERAL
LARGE LIMBS DOWNED
435 PM JACKSON GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 BUTTS COUPLE OF TREES DOWNED
545 PM 10NW MONTICELLO GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 JASPER A LARGE TREE AND LARGE LIMBS
DOWN.
445 PM 5S BARNESVILLE GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 5E BARNESVILLE 3 TREES DOWN IN COUNTY
1W BARNESVILLE
LAMAR
455 PM CONCORD GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 PIKE A COUPLE OF TREES DOWN
650 PM KENNESAW GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 COBB CAMPERS BLOWN OVER ON HWY 41
530 PM MORELAND GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 COWETA POWERLINES DOWN
649 PM WOODSTOCK GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 CHEROKEE HIWAY 92 PUBLIC REPORT
SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
635 PM ATLANTA GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 FULTON TREES DOWN.
530 PM NEWNAN GA WIND DAMAGE
8/3/95 COWETA POWERS LINES DOWN ON HIWAY 29
NEAR METHODIST CHURCH.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 | 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, 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, 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.