Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 5:38 PM EDT for Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 1995, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilkinson County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 886 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 272138 RRA SVRATL GAC319-272215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 538 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 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 CENTRAL GEORGIA ...WILKINSON COUNTY AT 535 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR OVER FITZPATRICK AND JEFFERSONVILLE. THE SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND HAS HAD A PAST HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE T ORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, Oct 27, 11:42 AM EDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>060-066-073-078>084- 091>098-103>113-272300- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1145 AM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND PARTS OF CENRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THIS AREA IS GENERALLY NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM PRESTON TO DUBLIN... EATONTON AND WASHINGTON. THIS AREA INCLUDES METROPOLITAN ATLANTA... ATHENS AND MACON. MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IS STREAMING NORTH FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO IN ADVANCE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. THIS WILL COMBINE WITH A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA...WITH SOME STORMS POSSIBLY BECOMING SEVERE. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND SOME LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. EVERYONE IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER SHOULD DANGEROUS WEATHER CONDITIONS DEVELOP. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. MSS
Special weather statement, Oct 27, 11:45 AM EDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>060-066-073-078>084- 091>098-103>113-272300- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1145 AM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND PARTS OF CENRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THIS AREA IS GENERALLY NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM PRESTON TO DUBLIN... EATONTON AND WASHINGTON. THIS AREA INCLUDES METROPOLITAN ATLANTA... ATHENS AND MACON. MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IS STREAMING NORTH FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO IN ADVANCE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. THIS WILL COMBINE WITH A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA...WITH SOME STORMS POSSIBLY BECOMING SEVERE. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND SOME LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. EVERYONE IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER SHOULD DANGEROUS WEATHER CONDITIONS DEVELOP. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. MSS
Local storm report, Oct 27, 5:01 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
501 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION...STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION..
456 PM 5S PERRY GA JUST S OF PERRY ON I75...GOLFBALL
10/27/95 HOUSTON CO SIZE HAIL...REP;ORTED BY SPOTTER.Local storm report, Oct 27, 5:03 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
501 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION...STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION..
456 PM 5S PERRY GA JUST S OF PERRY ON I75...GOLFBALL
10/27/95 HOUSTON CO SIZE HAIL...REP;ORTED BY SPOTTER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 51 min |
| Oct 27, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Heard | 47 min |
| Oct 27, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Macon | 47 min |
| Oct 27, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 42 min |
| Oct 27, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Troup | 42 min |
| Oct 27, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Taylor | 51 min |
| Oct 27, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Peach | 35 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.