Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1999, 3:51 PM EDT for Barrow County, Gwinnett County, Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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 22, 1999, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1999, 4:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barrow County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Walton County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 221952 RRA SVRATL GAC013-135-297-222040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 351 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARROW COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA WALTON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 440 PM EDT * AT 351 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF NICHOLASVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... BETWEEN AROUND 400 PM EDT... WINDER AROUND 405 PM EDT... MONROE AROUND 415 PM EDT... MOUNT VERNON AROUND 420 PM EDT... STATHAM AROUND 425 PM EDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. 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, 2 hours 15 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, 2 hours 15 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, 2:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 230 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 GAZ004>007-011>013-019>021-221945- BARTOW-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-FANNIN-FLOYD-GILMER-GORDON-MURRAY-PICKENS- WHITFIELD- 230 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM WHITFIELD TO FLOYD COUNTIES WILL MOVE EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH TO EXTEND FROM FANNIN TO CHEROKEE COUNTIES BY 330 PM. THE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY LIGHTNING... HAIL...WIND TO 40 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN OF AN INCH OR MORE AN HOUR. THE RAIN MAY RESULT IN PONDING ON ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS. GAZ027-038-039-050-051-061-062-075-221945- GLASCOCK-GREENE-HANCOCK-MADISON-OGLETHORPE-TALIAFERRO-WARREN-WILKES- 230 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM MADISON TO HANCOCK COUNTIES WILL MOVE EAST TO EXTEND FROM WILKES TO GLASCOCK COUNTIES BY 330 PM. THE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY LIGHTNING... HAIL...WIND TO 40 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN OF AN INCH OR MORE AN HOUR. THE RAIN MAY RESULT IN PONDING ON ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS. GAZ085-086-097-098-111>113-221945- EMANUEL-JOHNSON-LAURENS-MONTGOMERY-TOOMBS-TREUTLEN-WHEELER- 230 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999 AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JEFFERSON TO LAURENS COUNTIES WILL MOVE EAST TO EXTEND FROM EMANUEL TO TOOMBS COUNTIES BY 330 PM. THE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY LIGHTNING... HAIL...WIND TO 40 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN OF AN INCH OR MORE AN HOUR. THE RAIN MAY RESULT IN PONDING ON ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS.
Local storm report, May 22, 2:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
238 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
135 PM ROCKY FACE GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 WHITFIELD
230 PM CHATSWORTH GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 MURRAY
233 PM CHATSWORTH GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 MURRAYLocal storm report, May 22, 2:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
238 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
135 PM ROCKY FACE GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 WHITFIELD
230 PM CHATSWORTH GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 MURRAY
233 PM CHATSWORTH GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 MURRAYThe 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, 2:20 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.