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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 27, 1999Douglas County, Paulding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1999, 9:57 PM EST for Douglas County, Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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
Feb 27, 1999, 9:57 PM EST (02:57 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 1999, 10:45 PM EST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Douglas County, GA, Paulding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 27, 10:15 PM ESTHail 1New Hope, GAThe public reported quarter size hail or larger. A tree was also reported blown down in Dallas.
Feb 27, 10:30 PM ESTThunderstorm WindDouglasville, GADouglas county 911 reported a tree and power line blown down by thunderstorm winds.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 27, 9:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 57 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1999-02-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1999-02-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 271 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

999 
WUUS1 KATL 280259 RRA
SVRATL
GAC097-223-280345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
957 PM EST SAT FEB 27 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
  PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1045 PM EST

* AT 957 PM EST... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  9 MILES WEST OF NEW GEORGIA... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   NEW GEORGIA                 AROUND 1005 PM EST
   DALLAS                      AROUND 1010 PM EST
   DOUGLASVILLE                AROUND 1015 PM EST
   HIRAM                       AROUND 1015 PM EST
   LITHIA SPRINGS              AROUND 1020 PM EST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. IF
YOU SEE DAMAGE OR LARGE HAIL...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 770-486-1133 EXTENSION 2 0 4.

DH/BDL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 8:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade, Walker42 min
Feb 27, 9:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Haralson, Polk45 min
Feb 27, 9:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga45 min
Feb 27, 9:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Heard46 min
Feb 27, 10:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Cobb47 min
Feb 27, 10:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Fulton62 min
Feb 27, 10:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee48 min
Feb 27, 10:34 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTroup36 min
Feb 27, 10:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, DeKalb45 min
Feb 27, 10:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCForsyth45 min
Feb 27, 10:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette45 min
Feb 27, 10:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard34 min
Feb 27, 11:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHenry, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding47 min
Feb 27, 11:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCRockdale47 min
Feb 27, 11:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris, Talbot34 min
Feb 27, 11:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCNewton, Walton36 min
Feb 27, 11:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar, Upson33 min
Feb 27, 11:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford, Taylor33 min
Feb 27, 11:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Monroe33 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.