Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1999, 2:20 PM EDT for Gordon County, Murray County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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, 2:20 PM EDT (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1999, 2:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gordon County, GA, Murray County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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, 2:30 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Chatsworth, GA | Murary county 911 and the public reported dime to quarter 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.
000 TTAA00 KATL 221820 RRA SVRATL GAC129-213-221850- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 220 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 250 PM EDT * AT 217 PM EDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR ALONG A LINE FROM DAWNVILLE TO RESACA TO PLAINVILLE. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 28 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... CHATSWORTH...CALHOUN...RANGER...NICKELSVILLE. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY jLIGHTNING 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.
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 22, 1:36 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 136 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 GAZ001>005-011-012-019-221857- CATOOSA-CHATTOOGA-DADE-FLOYD-GORDON-MURRAY-WALKER-WHITFIELD- 136 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER WILKES AND CHATTOOGA COUNTIES WILL MOVE EAST TO EXTEND ALONG OVER MURRAY...GORDON AND FLOYD COUNTIES BY 230 PM. THESE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN OF AN INCH AN HOUR OR MORE. GAZ027-036>039-049>051-059>061-072-073-221857- BALDWIN-CLARKE-GREENE-HANCOCK-JASPER-JONES-MADISON-MORGAN-OCONEE- OGLETHORPE-PUTNAM-TALIAFERRO-WILKES- 136 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM MADISON TO MORGAN TO JONES WILL MOVE EAST TO EXTEND FROM WILKES TO WASHINGTON COUNTIES BY 230 PM. THESE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN OF AN INCH AN HOUR OR MORE.
Special weather statement, May 22, 1:36 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 136 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 GAZ001>005-011-012-019-221857- CATOOSA-CHATTOOGA-DADE-FLOYD-GORDON-MURRAY-WALKER-WHITFIELD- 136 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER WILKES AND CHATTOOGA COUNTIES WILL MOVE EAST TO EXTEND ALONG OVER MURRAY...GORDON AND FLOYD COUNTIES BY 230 PM. THESE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN OF AN INCH AN HOUR OR MORE. GAZ027-036>039-049>051-059>061-072-073-221857- BALDWIN-CLARKE-GREENE-HANCOCK-JASPER-JONES-MADISON-MORGAN-OCONEE- OGLETHORPE-PUTNAM-TALIAFERRO-WILKES- 136 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM MADISON TO MORGAN TO JONES WILL MOVE EAST TO EXTEND FROM WILKES TO WASHINGTON COUNTIES BY 230 PM. THESE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN OF AN INCH AN HOUR OR MORE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker, Whitfield | 49 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999
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.