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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1999, 7:36 AM EDT for Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 14 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1999, 7:36 AM EDT (11:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1999, 7:50 AM EDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Paulding County, GA
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, 6:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 061136 RRA SVRATL GAC223-061150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 736 AM EDT THU MAY 6 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 750 AM EDT * AT 732 AM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR NEAR DALLAS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. *THIS STORM PASS NEAR NEW HOPE AROUND 745 AM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT IN OR NEAR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. BE ALERT...BPUT REMAIN CALM. IF YOU SEE DAMAGE OR LARGE HAIL...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 770-486-1133 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.
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, 1 hour 31 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, 7:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 35 min |
| May 6, 7:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.