Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 346, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1999, 10:04 PM EDT for Hall County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Jun 24, 1999, 10:04 PM EDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1999, 10:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hall County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 10:09 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Gillsville, GA | The public reported larger than quarter size hail. |
| Jun 24, 10:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Clermont, GA | Hall county 911 reported severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a home on H. White Road. The roof of another home was damaged, and several other homes, barns and outbuilding sustained minor damage. There was 1 minor injury as the storm tracked east along the Hall |
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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 802 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 250205 RRA SVRATL GAC139-250240- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1004 PM EDT THU JUN 24 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HALL COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 1040 PM EDT * AT 1003 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELMONT... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... BELMONT AROUND 1010 PM EDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AjN 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 10:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 34 min |
| Jun 24, 10:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 20 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.