Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 341, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 1995, 5:27 PM EDT for Newton County, Rockdale County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 1, 1995, 5:27 PM EDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Newton County, GA, Rockdale County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1017 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 012126 RRA SVRATL GAC217-247-012215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 527 PM EDT FRI SEP 1 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...ROCKDALE COUNTY AT 524 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CENTERVILLE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. AN OFF DUTY WEATHER OBSERVER REPORTED THREE-QUARTER INCH HAIL IN CENTERVILLE AT 520 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DvEADLY 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
Special weather statement, Sep 1, 2:01 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-012000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 201 PM EDT FRI SEP 1 1995 THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WILL BE MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD INTO RABUN...HABERSHAM AND STEPHENS COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS. PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD RAMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Sep 1, 2:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-012000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 201 PM EDT FRI SEP 1 1995 THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WILL BE MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD INTO RABUN...HABERSHAM AND STEPHENS COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS. PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD RAMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 54 min |
| Sep 1, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 52 min |
| Sep 1, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 54 min |
| Sep 1, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 54 min |
| Sep 1, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 41 min |
| Sep 1, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 41 min |
| Sep 1, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 49 min |
| Sep 1, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar | 47 min |
| Sep 1, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot, Taylor | 54 min |
| Sep 1, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 36 min |
| Sep 1, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford | 50 min |
| Sep 1, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 50 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.