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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 5, 1999Carroll County, Heard County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1999, 5:23 PM EDT for Carroll County, Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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 5, 1999, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1999, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, GA, Heard County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 5, 5:35 PM EDTHail 0.75Whitesburg, GAThe Whitesburg fire department 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 329 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1999-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 191 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1999-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
191 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-368 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

963 
WUUS1 KATL 052124 RRA
SVRATL
GAC045-149-052200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
523 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
  HEARD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 523 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  8 MILES SOUTH OF WHITESBURG... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS.

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 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs34 min
Jun 4, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkinson20 min
Jun 4, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley36 min
Jun 4, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPulaski, Wilcox48 min
Jun 4, 8:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge, Pulaski51 min
Jun 4, 9:04 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCPulaski21 min
Jun 4, 9:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilcox34 min
Jun 4, 9:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilcox18 min
Jun 5, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp33 min
Jun 5, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta34 min
Jun 5, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMurray, Whitfield34 min
Jun 5, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll34 min
Jun 5, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTroup36 min
Jun 5, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWhitfield36 min
Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa35 min
Jun 5, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga, Walker33 min
Jun 5, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd36 min

Nearby

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

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.