Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 7:37 PM EDT for Butts County, Jasper County, Georgia. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1995, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butts County, GA, Jasper County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1186 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 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 232339 SVRATL GAC035-159-240045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 737 PM EDT SUN APR 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...BUTTS COUNTY...JASPER COUNTY AT 735 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDESTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF JACKSON MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL MOVE INTO MONTICELLO AROUND 805 PM. 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 23, 4:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-120>127-142>145-232245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 441 PM EDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST AND PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA..AND FOR SOUTHWEST AND PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 440 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER EAST ALABAMA NEAR THE TOWNS OF OPELIKA..TUSKEGEE AND HURTSBORO. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PERSONS WHO RESIDE IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA..WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER THIS EVENING AS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. 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. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 6:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
GAZ076-085-086-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 610 PM EDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #260 FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAS BEEN CANCELED... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH: JEFFERSON JOHNSON EMANUEL THE ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAS BECOME MORE STABLE OVER THE THE LAST FEW HOURS. THUS THE WATCH WAS CANCELED SINCE THE THREAT OF SEVERE HAS PASSED FOR NOW.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 6:50 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
ALZ048-GAZ089-090-102-120>126-142>145-240055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 650 PM EDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA..WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA.. AT 645 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM NEAR TUSKEGEE IN EAST ALABAMA. MORE STORMS WERE TO THE NORTHWEST OF DOTHAN ALABAMA AND A THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED ABOUT 20 SOUTHEAST OF ALBANY GEORGIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MPH. PEOPLE WHO RESIDE IN EAST ALABAMA..WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT THIS EVENING FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE IN THE PnATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones, Monroe | 55 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.