Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1999, 8:22 AM EDT for Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 3, 1999, 8:22 AM EDT (12:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1999, 8:55 AM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:25 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 5 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
- 815 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 031222 RRA SVRATL GAC113-031255- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 822 AM EDT THU JUN 3 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 855 AM EDT * AT 821 AM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES WEST OF PEACHTREE CITY... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... PEACHTREE CITY AROUND 840 AM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 25 min |
| Jun 3, 8:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 48 min |
| Jun 3, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 51 min |
| Jun 3, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.