Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1999, 1:26 PM EDT for Walker County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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 22, 1999, 1:26 PM EDT (17:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1999, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 1:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Rocky Face, GA | A spotter reported dime size hail. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WUUS1 KATL 221732 RRA SVRATL GAC295-313-221815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 126 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 126 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNT VERNON... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... MOUNT VERNON AROUND 140 PM EDT... ROCKY FACE AROUND 145 PM EDT... TUNNEL HILL AROUND 145 PM EDT... TILTON AROUND 145 PM EDT... DALTON AROUND 150 PM EDT... DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. 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 22, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray | 30 min |
| May 22, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 35 min |
| May 22, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 49 min |
| May 22, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 49 min |
| May 22, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Hall | 33 min |
| May 22, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Walton | 49 min |
| May 22, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 37 min |
| May 22, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale | 35 min |
| May 22, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 33 min |
| May 22, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 36 min |
| May 22, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 33 min |
| May 22, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 35 min |
| May 22, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.