Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 12:24 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 12:24 PM EDT (16:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Meriwether County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 50 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 221624 SVRATL GAC199-285-221715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1224 PM EDT SAT APR 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MERIWETHER COUNTY...EASTERN TROUP COUNTY AT 1220 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN TROUP COUNTY AT LA GRANGE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. CITIZENS IN MOUNTVILLE...GREENVILLE AND WOOSTER 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. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARJGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 12:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 52 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.