Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1999, 4:37 PM EDT for Coweta County, Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 3, 1999, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1999, 5:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coweta County, GA, Fayette County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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 3, 4:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Roscoe, GA | The public 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 12 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 032037 RRA SVRATL GAC077-113-032110- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 437 PM EDT THU JUN 3 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN COWETA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA FAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 510 PM EDT * AT 437 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF SENOIA... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... SENOIA AROUND 445 PM EDT... STARRS MILL AROUND 445 PM EDT... HARALSON AROUND 450 PM EDT... INMAN AROUND 450 PM EDT... BROOKS AROUND 455 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.
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
Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
235 PM EDT THU JUN 3 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
828 AM THOMAS CROSSROADS GA WIND DAMAGE
06/03/99 COWETA LARGE LIMBS BLOWN FROM TREES
115 PM 3 ESE HOGANSVILLE GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 TROUP QUARTER SIZE HAIL ON I-85 AT
EXIT 6
155 PM LAGRANGE GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 TROUP NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
AT HOGANSVILLE ROADThe 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, 8:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 33 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.