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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1999, 7:21 PM EDT for Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 2, 1999, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1999, 8:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spalding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:28 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Vaughn, GA | There were several reports of dime and quarter size hail from the public and the 911 center. |
| Jun 2, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffin, GA | A newspaper account said thunderstorm winds blew trees into power lines, causing power outages to some 4000 customers in central and western Spalding county. Most of the damage was on the north side of Griffin. Also, the wind damaged a gas pump shelter at a fi |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
174 WUUS1 KATL 022321 RRA SVRATL GAC255-030010- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 721 PM EDT WED JUN 2 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SPALDING COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 810 PM EDT * AT 721 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES WEST OF TOWALAGA... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... TOWALAGA AROUND 730 PM EDT... WALKER MILL AROUND 730 PM EDT... 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.
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, Jun 2, 6:42 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
GAZ008-009-014>016-022-023-025-033>035-044>048-054>058-022345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 642 PM EDT WED JUN 2 1999 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT... A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTH GEORGIA TO THE SOUTHEAST ATLANTA SUBURBS WILL PUSH EAST AT 25 MPH THIS EVENING. AT 635 PM THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR BLAIRSVILLE TO GAINESVILLE TO JUST WEST OF MCDONOUGH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF WINDS GUSTING TO 55 MPH AND SMALL HAIL...AS WELL AS DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING. DH
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 6:42 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
GAZ008-009-014>016-022-023-025-033>035-044>048-054>058-022345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 642 PM EDT WED JUN 2 1999 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT... A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTH GEORGIA TO THE SOUTHEAST ATLANTA SUBURBS WILL PUSH EAST AT 25 MPH THIS EVENING. AT 635 PM THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR BLAIRSVILLE TO GAINESVILLE TO JUST WEST OF MCDONOUGH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF WINDS GUSTING TO 55 MPH AND SMALL HAIL...AS WELL AS DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING. DH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth, Fulton | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Walton | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | White | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 49 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.