Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1995, 9:39 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 1995, 9:39 PM EDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1995, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gwinnett County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 725 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 020142 SVRATL GAC135-020215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 939 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...GWINNETT COUNTY AT 940 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF LAWRENCEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. IT WILL MOVE ACROSS LAWRENCEVILLE AROUND 950 PM. 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.
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, May 1, 4:18 PM EDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
GAZ005>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-021000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 418 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT STRETCHED ACROSS EXTREME NORTH ALABAMA AND NORTH GEORGIA INTO CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE CENTER MOVING ALONG THIS FRONT WILL HELP TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS EVENING AND LATER TONIGHT. CONSIDERABLE LATE AFTERNOON HEATING WILL MAKE THE AIR MORE UNSTABLE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE AND TORNADOES COULD ALSO BE POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, May 1, 5:13 PM EDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-012230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 510 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995 A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 1100 PM EDT WHICH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF RABUN... HABERSHAM...STEPHENS...FRANKLIN...HART...AND ELBERT. AT 505 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF LIGHT RAIN AND A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST AND THE MOUNTAIN AREAS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INTO NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND EAST TENNESSEE. THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE PUSHING ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. KEEP ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS LATER THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, May 1, 6:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-012330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 635 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 1100 PM EDT WHICH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF RABUN... HABERSHAM...STEPHENS...FRANKLIN...HART...AND ELBERT. AT 630 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN CLAYTON AND CORNELIA IN NORTHERN HABERSHAM COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN...SHOWERS...AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL COVERED MUCH OF NORTH GEORGIA... WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...EAST TENNESSEE...THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST ALABAMA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF ELLIJAY...NEAR ROSWELL AND NEAR CLEVELAND GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP ALERT AND SEEK SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS PASS OVER YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, May 1, 8:40 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-020230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 840 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 1100 PM EDT WHICH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF RABUN... HABERSHAM...STEPHENS...FRANKLIN...HART...AND ELBERT. AT 835 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF DAWSONVILLE...OVER CANTON...AND JUST EAST OF CARTERSVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS RABUN...HABERSHAM...AND STEPHENS COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER THUNDERSTORMS DUR OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AND REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH GEORGIA...EXTREME EAST TENNESSEE...THE WESTERN CAROLINAS...AND NORTHEAST ALABAMA. IN GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WAS MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM CARROLLTON TO HARTWEbLL GEORGIA TO ANDERSON TO CHESTER SOUTH CAROLINA MOVMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, May 1, 9:37 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY 935 PM EDT MON MAY 01 1995 COUNTY....... HALL COUNTY SOURCE....... HALL COUNTY 911 TIME......... 854 PM LOCATION..... 12N GAINSVILLE WEATHER...... THUNDERSTORM WINDS KNOCKED DOWN SEVERAL TREES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 8:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson | 29 min |
| May 1, 8:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 26 min |
| May 1, 9:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 53 min |
| May 1, 9:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Franklin | 48 min |
| May 1, 9:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 44 min |
| May 1, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hart | 38 min |
| May 1, 10:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 21 min |
Nearby
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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.