Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1999, 9:20 PM EST for Floyd County, Haralson County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min. 3 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
- Feb 27, 1999, 9:20 PM EST (02:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1999, 10:05 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Floyd County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 9:40 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Rome, GA | A HAM radio operator reported a tree down on a house in Rome. Floyd county 911 reported trees down on Pleasant Valley Road in the Silver Creek area. They also reported damage to the roof of a theater in Rome. |
| Feb 27, 9:40 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, GA | Haralson county 911 reported trees and power lines knocked down across the county by thunderstorm winds. A HAM radio operator reported numerous trees down in the area east and northeast of Buchanan. |
| Feb 27, 9:57 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedartown, GA | Polk county 911 reported several trees blown down. A tree was knocked onto a church on Antioch Road in Cedartown. A HAM radio operator reported many trees down on Davis Road near Rockmart. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 9:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 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 280222 RRA SVRATL GAC055-115-143-233-280305- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 920 PM EST SAT FEB 27 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHATTOOGA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 1005 PM EST * AT 917 PM EST... A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR IN EASTERN ALABAMA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... ROME...CEDARTOWN...SUMMERVILLE AND BUCHANAN. 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 EXTENSION 2 0 4. DH/NM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 8:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 9:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 9:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Paulding | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 10:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cobb | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 10:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fulton | 62 min |
| Feb 27, 10:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 10:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 10:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 34 min |
| Feb 27, 11:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 11:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 11:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 34 min |
| Feb 27, 11:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 11:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 11:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 11:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Monroe | 33 min |
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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.