Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 336, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 11:56 PM EDT for Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1995, 11:56 PM EDT (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1995, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 2446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 200356 RRA SVRATL GAC233-200430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1156 PM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...POLK COUNTY AT 1152 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF CEDARTOWN MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 MILES AN 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 19, 6:35 PM EDT, 5 hours 21 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)Local storm report, Aug 19, 9:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
915 PM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
745 PM FULTON COUNTY GA NUMEROUS TREES DOWN CITYWIDE
NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES...
PEOPLE STUCK IN ELEVATORS...
(FROM FULTON COUNTY 911)
WWUS35KSTL 06Local storm report, Aug 19, 9:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
915 PM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
745 PM FULTON COUNTY GA NUMEROUS TREES DOWN CITYWIDE
NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES...
PEOPLE STUCK IN ELEVATORS...
(FROM FULTON COUNTY 911)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.