Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT for Cobb County, Douglas County, Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cobb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Paulding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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, 8.7 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
- 231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 192039 SVRATL GAC067-097-223-192130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 440 PM EDT WED APR 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...COBB COUNTY...DOUGLAS COUNTY...EASTERN PAULDING COUNTY AT 440 PM EDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTH OF DALLAS GEORGIA MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY 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, Apr 19, 11:22 AM EDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
GAZ005>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-192200- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1130 AM EDT WED APR 19 1995 THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS BETWEEN COLUMBUS AND MACON. ELSEWHERE STABLE AIR WILL INIHIBIT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON. KM
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 1:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
GAZ005>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-192200- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 110 PM EDT WED APR 19 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM ROME TO BLAIRSVILLE. OTHERWISE THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH GEORGIA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. DRY STABLE AIR WILL INIHIBIT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE REST OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FORx POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON. KM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Oconee | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 38 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.