Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

Jun 4, 1999, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)

Expired

Jun 4, 1999, 3:45 PM EDT

In force

36 min

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Whole counties

County Floyd County, GA

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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TTAA00 KATL 041910
SVRATL
GAC115-041945-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
309 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 309 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  3 MILES WEST OF LINDALE... MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY FLOOD
ROADS QUICKLY. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
IF YOU SEE FLOODING...LARGE HAIL OR WIND DAMAGE...CALL THE
NATI|ONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 770-486-1133 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.

In the hours before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-041715-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1220 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1999

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON OVER MOST OF
NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA.

THE AREA HAVING THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM
ELBERTON TO MONROE TO AMERICUS...BUT SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT
ANYWHERE IN THE STATE TODAY.

A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN
STATES. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S TO LOWER 90S AND A SLOW
MOVING FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL COMBINE TO TRIGGER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS.

SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ABOVE
50 MPH BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT.
SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER
CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON IN CASE ACTIVATION BECOMES NECESSARY.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.