Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1999, 4:12 PM EDT for Catoosa County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 10, 1999, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1999, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Catoosa County, GA, Walker County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 4:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Chickamauga, GA | Walker county 911 center reported wind damage between Chickamauga and Rossville. Many trees were blown over and a trailer was damaged by wind. |
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
647 WUUS1 KATL 102014 RRA SVRATL GAC047-295-102045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 412 PM EDT THU JUN 10 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CATOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 411 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES EAST OF HIGH POINT... MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AROUND 430 PM... HIGH POINT AROUND 430 PM... HINKLES AROUND 440 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 10, 3:19 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
319 PM EDT THU JUN 10 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
240 PM CHATSWORTH GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 MURRAY 2 PUBLIC REPORTS OF DIME AND
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN ETON
AND CHATSWORTH.
245 PM DAWNVILLE GA WIND DAMAGE
06/10/99 WHITFIELD TREES DOWN.Local storm report, Jun 10, 3:19 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
319 PM EDT THU JUN 10 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
240 PM CHATSWORTH GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 MURRAY 2 PUBLIC REPORTS OF DIME AND
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN ETON
AND CHATSWORTH.
245 PM DAWNVILLE GA WIND DAMAGE
06/10/99 MURRAY TREES DOWN.Local storm report, Jun 10, 3:19 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
319 PM EDT THU JUN 10 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
240 PM CHATSWORTH GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/10/99 MURRAY 2 PUBLIC REPORTS OF DIME AND
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN ETON
AND CHATSWORTH.
245 PM DAWNVILLE GA WIND DAMAGE
06/10/99 WHITFIELD TREES DOWN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.