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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 335, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 19, 1995Fulton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 7:41 PM EDT for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 19, 1995, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Fulton County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 1324 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 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 192342
SVRATL
GAC121-200015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
741 PM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...FULTON COUNTY
 
AT 740 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTH FULON COUNTY 5 MILES SOUTH OF ROSWELL. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS
THE ATLANTA METRO AREA INCLUDING DOWNTOWN ATLANTA BETWEEN 740 AND 815
PM. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHWEST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRO:NG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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 19, 6:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
635 PM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995

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

627 PM     DAWSON COUNTY             GA     HAIL SLIGHTLY LARGER
                                            THAN DIME SIZE...2 MILES
                                            EAST OF DAWSONVILLE
                                            (REPORTED BY DAWSON
                                             COUNTY 911)

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth	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.