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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 22, 1995Polk County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 10:46 AM EDT for Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 1995, 10:46 AM EDT (14:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1995, 11:30 AM EDT
In force: 44 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 14:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 2.8 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1082 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 221446
SVRATL
GAC233-221530-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1046 AM EDT SAT APR 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...POLK COUNTY
 
AT 1045 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PEACHTREE CITY
INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PIEDMONT ALABAMA MOVING TO THE EAST
AT 35 MPH. MARBLE TO GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.
THE STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS ESOM HILL AROUND 1100 AM AND SOUTH OF
CEDARTOWN AROUND 1115 AM.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFF6ECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
 
 
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 10:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	49 min
Apr 22, 10:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	49 min
Apr 22, 11:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	46 min
Apr 22, 11:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	47 min
Apr 22, 11:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton, Rockdale	41 min
Apr 22, 11:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	41 min
Apr 22, 12:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	52 min
Apr 22, 12:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Troup	51 min
Apr 22, 12:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene	31 min
Apr 22, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oconee, Oglethorpe	45 min
Apr 22, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Elbert	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1995 Every 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.