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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 1, 1995Barrow County, Jackson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1995, 9:46 PM EDT for Barrow County, Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 1, 1995, 9:46 PM EDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Barrow County, GA, Jackson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 020149
SVRATL
GAC013-157-020230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
946 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...BARROW COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY
 
AT 945 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER LAWRENCEVILLE...MOVING
EAST AT 60 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL AFFECT WINDER...AND SOUTHERN
JACKSON COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 20 MINUTES.
 
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.
 
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.

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, 9:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	36 min
May 1, 9:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Franklin	48 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

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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.