Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1999, 7:00 AM EDT for Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1999, 7:00 AM EDT (11:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1999, 7:35 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Paulding County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:15 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Dallas, GA | There were numerous public reports of dime size hail across Paulding county. |
| May 6, 7:30 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 EG | Dallas, GA | Paulding county 911 received a report of trees and power lines down near highway 92 north of highway 278 near Dallas. There was also a report of a funnel cloud. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 1:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 6, 6:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 645 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 6, 6:05 AM EDT, 55 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-061115- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 605 AM EDT THU MAY 6 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY AND TONIGHT. MOIST UNSTABLE AIR ALREADY OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA WILL BE MAINTAINED BY LOW LEVEL SOUTHERLY WINDS TODAY. MEANWHILE...SURFACE HEATING TODAY...AND THE WINDS ALOFT...WILL PROMOTE UPWARD MOTION AND RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO DEVELOPING WEATHER TODAY IN CASE ACTIVATION BECOMES NECESSARY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 11:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 33 min |
| May 5, 11:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 49 min |
| May 6, 12:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 36 min |
| May 6, 12:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 31 min |
| May 6, 1:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 50 min |
| May 6, 2:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 35 min |
| May 6, 2:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 35 min |
| May 6, 3:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 35 min |
| May 6, 3:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 46 min |
| May 6, 4:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 32 min |
| May 6, 4:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 32 min |
| May 6, 7:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 34 min |
| May 6, 7:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 14 min |
| May 6, 7:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 32 min |
| May 6, 7:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 36 min |
| May 6, 7:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 36 min |
| May 6, 8:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 45 min |
| May 6, 8:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 28 min |
| May 6, 8:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 36 min |
| May 6, 8:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 45 min |
| May 6, 9:04 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 31 min |
| May 6, 9:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 34 min |
| May 6, 9:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 36 min |
| May 6, 9:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 33 min |
| May 6, 11:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 34 min |
| May 6, 11:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 31 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro | 31 min |
| May 6, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren, Wilkes | 28 min |
| May 6, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.