Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 12:08 PM EDT for Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 12:08 PM EDT (16:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:10 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 221608 SVRATL GAC297-221700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1208 PM EDT SAT APR 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...WALTON COUNTY AT 1206 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF CONYERS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. CITIZENS IN WALNUT GROVE AND MONROE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT 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. 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 PASSED. 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 22, 9:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-211200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 955 AM EDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA WHICH INCLUDES HART...HABERSHAM...ELBERT...STEPHENS AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 11:33 AM EDT, 35 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-221730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1130 AM EDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA WHICH INCLUDES HART...HABERSHAM...ELBERT...STEPHENS AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AT 1130 AM EDT SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE INDICATED ACROSS NORTHWEST GEOR\GIA. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM LAKE ALATOONA TO ATLANTA TO LAGRANGE AND WEST TO THE ALABAMA/GEORGIA BORDER. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Apr 22, 11:37 AM EDT, 31 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY 1135 AM EDT SAT APR 22 1995 COUNTY....... CHEROKEE SOURCE....... HAM RADIO OPERATOR TIME......... 1115 AM EDT LOCATION..... WOODSTOCK WEATHER...... 1 INCH HAIL DAMAGE....... COUNTY....... SOUTH FULTON COUNTY SOURCE....... EAST POINT POLICE DISPATCHER TIME......... 1130 AM EDT LOCATION..... CITY OF EAST POINT WEATHER...... 1 INCH HAIL DAMAGE.......
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 11:49 AM EDT, 19 minutes before
GAZ005>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-231000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1149 AM EDT SAT APR 22 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF WEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON FROM CEDARTOWN TO ATLANTA TO MACON AND SOUTHWEST TO BAINBRIDGE. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THE ENTIRE STATE TONIGHT. MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER WEST GEORGIA THIS MORNING WILL SPREAD EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE INSTABILITY OVER THE NORTHWEST LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT.
Local storm report, Apr 22, 11:58 AM EDT, 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY 1135 AM EDT SAT APR 22 1995 COUNTY....... FAYETTE COUNTY SOURCE....... FAYETTE CO 911 TIME......... 1120 AM EDT (1020 EST) LOCATION..... WOOLSEY WEATHER...... 3/4 TO 1" HAIL DAMAGE....... COUNTY....... FAYETTE COUNTY SOURCE....... FAYETTE CO 911 TIME......... 1120 AM EDT(1020 EST) LOCATION..... FAYETTEVILLE WEATHER...... 3/4 TO 1" HAIL DAMAGE.......
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, 10:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 44 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, 12:24 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, 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.