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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 15, 1995, 7:39 PM EDT for Laurens County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Laurens County, GA, Wheeler County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 1935 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 152338 TORATL GAC175-309-160015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 739 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN LAURENS COUNTY...NORTHERN WHEELER COUNTY AT 735 RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR CEDAR GROVE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. LAURENS COUNTY 911 REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR CEDAR GROVE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 23 min |
| May 15, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 48 min |
| May 15, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 45 min |
| May 15, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 41 min |
| May 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Monroe | 45 min |
| May 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan | 45 min |
| May 15, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 40 min |
| May 15, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 43 min |
| May 15, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Peach | 43 min |
| May 15, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski | 54 min |
| May 15, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 54 min |
| May 15, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 46 min |
| May 15, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen, Wheeler | 43 min |
| May 15, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 43 min |
| May 15, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Ben Hill, Turner | 61 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.