Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Atlanta, GA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
210 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 1989

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUED TO DEVELOPE
ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 200 PM EDT RADAR
SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CHATSWORTH SOUTHWARD TO CALHOUN
TO NEAR ROCKMART. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED AROUND THE LA GRANGE...
MANCHESTER...AND THOMASTON VICINITIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE CHATSWORTH VICINITY...
JUST NORTHWEST OF LAKE ALATOONA...AND NEAR MANCHESTER. THESE
STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL
...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.
BOATERS ON LAKES...ESPECIALLY LAKE ALATOONA SHOULD BE PARTICULARLY
ALERT TO THE APPROACH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND SEEK SHELTER. RESIDENTS
ELSEWHERE ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THESE
THUNDERSTORMS AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
245 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 1989

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED FROM ABOUT 25 MILES EAST OF
CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE SOUTH TO LAKE ALATOONA IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA.

THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH
AND SHOULD REACH THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNTIES UNION...LUMPKIN AND
HALL IN ABOUT ANOTHER ONE TO ONE AND A HALF HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUST WINDS...
BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL.

PERSONS IN THESE AND ADJACENT COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD
BE ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT TWO TO THREE HOURS.

ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
335 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 1989

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED
IN NORTH AND WEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 315 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A
CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF FAIRBURN IN
SOUTHWEST FULTON COUNTY TO NEWNAN IN COWETA COUNTY TO NEAR WOODBURY IN
MERIWETHER COUNTY.

ANOTHER CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN THE COUNTIES OF
DAWSON AND FORSYTH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT
NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA.

MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST AT 25 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND
POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED AREAS.
A FEW TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN THE CHASTWORTH AREA OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA
EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO THESE STORMS.
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MOTORISTS HEADING SOUTH OF DOWNDOWN ATLANTA DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO
HOURS SHOULD BE ALERT AND USE EXTRA CAUTION WHILE TRAVELLING LATER THIS
AFTERNOON.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
410 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 1989

AT 405 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE
ATLANTA METROPOLITAN AREA FROM THE WEST. IT APPEARS THESE STORMS
WILL BRING RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING TO MUCH OF
THE METRO AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR...BUT STRONGEST STORMS ARE AIMING
AT THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CITY. PORTIONS OF THE METRO AREA MAY
ALSO RECEIVE SMALL HAIL.

DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE SOME STREET FLOODING...SO MOTORISTS IN THE
ATLANTA METROPOLITAN AREA SHOULD SLOW DOWN TO AVOID HYDROPLANING.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
445 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS ON ATLANTA'S SOUTH SIDE.....

AT 440 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE EARLIER APPROACHING
THE ENTIRE ATLANTA METROPOLITAN AREA HAD TURNED AND MOVED INTO THE
SOUTHERN PART OF THE AREA. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING A LOT OF
LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVED EAST AND SOUTHEAST
AT 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY BE DROPPING SMALL HAIL...ALTHOUGH NO
REPORTS OF HAIL HAD BEEN RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE AS OF 445 PM.

AT THAT TIME RADAR SHOWED STRONGEST STORMS OVER CLAYTON AND HENRY
COUNTIES...FROM JONESBORO TO JUST NORTH OF MC DON:OUGH.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
505 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 1989

A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE COUNTIES
OF WALTON...NEWTON AND MORGAN IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA DURING THE NEXT
HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE
SMALL HAIL.

PERSONS IN THESEU COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS
FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS.