Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 337, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1999, 6:52 PM EDT for Chattooga County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1999, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1999, 7:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chattooga County, GA, Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
117 WUUS1 KATL 052253 RRA SVRATL GAC055-295-052325- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 652 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN CHATTOOGA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA EASTERN WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 725 PM EDT * AT 651 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF CATLETT... MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... CATLETT AROUND 720 PM EDT... NOBLE AROUND 725 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 5, 6:40 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
640 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM WELCOME GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 COWETA
515 PM NEWNAN GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 COWETA
528 PM NEWNAN GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 COWETA
535 PM WHITESBURG GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 CARROLL
611 PM 8 NE WEST POINT GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 TROUP
613 PM WEST POINT GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 TROUP
633 PM TUNNEL HILL GA WIND DAMAGE
06/05/99 WHITFIELD SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWNLocal storm report, Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
640 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM WELCOME GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 COWETA
515 PM NEWNAN GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 COWETA
528 PM NEWNAN GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 COWETA
535 PM WHITESBURG GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 CARROLL
611 PM 8 NE WEST POINT GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 TROUP
613 PM WEST POINT GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/99 TROUP
633 PM TUNNEL HILL GA WIND DAMAGE
06/05/99 WHITFIELD SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 20 min |
| Jun 4, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 9:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 21 min |
| Jun 4, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 18 min |
| Jun 5, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.