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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 9, 1995Floyd County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1995, 6:29 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 1995, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Floyd County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 338 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 126 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
338 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 092230
SVRATL
GAC115-092315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
629 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...FLOYD COUNTY
 
AT 626 PM EDT PEACHTREE CITY WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROME GEORGIA MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE OVER ROME BY 7 PM EDT.
 
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGordon47 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.