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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1999, 7:26 PM EDT for Carroll County, Douglas County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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 7, 1999, 7:26 PM EDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1999, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas 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 7, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KATL 072326 RRA
SVRATL
GAC045-097-080000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
726 PM EDT FRI MAY 7 1999
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
* AT 724 PM EDT... A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY
DOPPLER RADAR FROM VILLA RICA TO BOWDEN MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
CARROLLTON
DOUGLASVILLE
WHITESBURG
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...BUT REMAIN CALM. IF YOU SEE DAMAGE
OR LARGE HAIL...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 770-486-1133
AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 20 min |
| May 7, 4:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 32 min |
| May 7, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 36 min |
| May 7, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 35 min |
| May 7, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 30 min |
| May 7, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll | 13 min |
| May 7, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 30 min |
| May 7, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns | 34 min |
| May 7, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding | 33 min |
| May 7, 4:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 32 min |
| May 7, 4:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb | 36 min |
| May 7, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 33 min |
| May 7, 4:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding | 34 min |
| May 7, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 35 min |
| May 7, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll | 32 min |
| May 7, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 36 min |
| May 7, 5:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 33 min |
| May 7, 5:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 49 min |
| May 7, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 47 min |
| May 7, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 33 min |
| May 7, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 33 min |
| May 7, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 35 min |
| May 7, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 32 min |
| May 7, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta | 37 min |
| May 7, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 50 min |
| May 7, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Paulding | 31 min |
| May 7, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 48 min |
| May 7, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 36 min |
| May 7, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 50 min |
| May 7, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 51 min |
| May 7, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 35 min |
| May 7, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 31 min |
| May 7, 7:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 47 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.