Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1995, 2:37 PM EDT for Heard County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1995, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Heard County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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 12:00Z, 6.6 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 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 111839 RRA SVRATL GAC149-285-111930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 237 PM EDT TUE APR 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN HEARD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...NORTHERN TROUP COUNTY AT 235 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EASTERN ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROCK MILLS ALABAMA AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. CITIZENS ALONG THE BORDER OF TROUP AND HEARD COUNTIES CAN EXPECT THE STORM TO PASS THROUGH THEIR AREA. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSfED. 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
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 12:37 PM EDT, 2 hours before
ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-120-121-111840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 1237 PM EDT TUE APR 11 1995 .....A TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 189 IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT..... AT 1235 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SCqG A MUCH STRONGER SHORT WAVE WILL ARRIVE SUNDAY. CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION WILL INCREASE THROUGH THE DAY. RAINFALL TOTALS COULD BE AS MUCH AS ONE INCH SUNDAY. GRAF/WEATHER FORECASTG SOUTHWARD TO MIDWAY AND THEN TO ABBEVILLE ALABAMA. THIS AREA HAS BEEN MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS AREA SHOULD BE ENTERING INTO WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA WITHIN THE HOUR. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 12:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-120-121-111840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 1237 PM EDT TUE APR 11 1995 .....A TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 189 IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT..... AT 1235 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND A FEW EMBEDDED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THESE STORMS WAS FROM JUST WEST OF OPELIKA ALABAMA EXTENDING SOUTHWARD TO MIDWAY AND THEN TO ABBEVILLE ALABAMA. THIS AREA HAS BEEN MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS AREA SHOULD BE ENTERING INTO WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA WITHIN THE HOUR. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 1:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
GAC215-259-ALC113-111840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 135 PM EDT TUE APR 11 1995 ....A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM.... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT... AT 135 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE WAS 10 MILES WEST OF OPELIKA ALABAMA EXTENDING SOUTHWARD TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUBURN ALABAMA. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS BEEN MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Taylor | 40 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.