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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 383, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 29, 1999DeKalb County, Fulton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1999, 7:14 PM EDT for DeKalb County, Fulton 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 29, 1999, 7:14 PM EDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1999, 7:50 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties DeKalb County, GA, Fulton County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 29, 7:33 PM EDT	Hail 1	Chamblee, GA	The public reported quarter size hail.
Jun 29, 7:45 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Union City, GA	The public 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 621 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 29, 2:46 PM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
246 PM EDT TUE JUN 29 1999

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

205 PM     TRENTON                   GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/29/99   DADE                           THE PUBLIC REPORTED DIME
                                          SIZE HAIL AND WINDS
                                          ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH.

140 PM     MONTICELLO                GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/99   JASPER                         911 CENTER REPORTED TREES
                                          DOWN ON HIGHWAY 11 NORTH IN
                                          MONTICELLO.

225 PM     5 SW TRENTON              GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/99   DADE                           SHERIFF REPORTED TREES DOWN
                                          AND POWER LINES DOWN.

222 PM     MILLEDGEVILLE             GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/29/99   BALDWIN                        A SPOTTER REPORTED DIME SIZE
                                          HAIL.

245 PM     WRENS                     GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/99   JEFFERSON                      WRENS PD REPORTED TREES DOWN
                                          AND POWER OUTAGES.

230 PM                               GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/99   WASHINGTON                     911 CENTER REPORTED TREES
                                          DOWN IN DEEPSTEP AND
                                          SANDERSVILLE.

Local storm report, Jun 29, 2:46 PM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
246 PM EDT TUE JUN 29 1999

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

205 PM     TRENTON                   GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/29/99   DADE                           THE PUBLIC REPORTED DIME
                                          SIZE HAIL AND WINDS
                                          ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH.

140 PM     MONTICELLO                GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/99   JASPER                         911 CENTER REPORTED TREES
                                          DOWN ON HIGHWAY 11 NORTH IN
                                          MONTICELLO.

225 PM     5 SW TRENTON              GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/99   DADE                           SHERIFF REPORTED TREES DOWN
                                          AND POWER LINES DOWN.

222 PM     MILLEDGEVILLE             GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/29/99   BALDWIN                        A SPOTTER REPORTED DIME SIZE
                                          HAIL.

245 PM     WRENS                     GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/99   JEFFERSON                      WRENS PD REPORTED TREES DOWN
                                          AND POWER OUTAGES.

230 PM                               GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/29/99   WASHINGTON                     911 CENTER REPORTED TREES
                                          DOWN IN DEEPSTEP AND
                                          SANDERSVILLE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 10:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Toombs, Treutlen	32 min
Jun 29, 1:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	33 min
Jun 29, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taliaferro	33 min
Jun 29, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock	36 min
Jun 29, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin	34 min
Jun 29, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene	37 min
Jun 29, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	35 min
Jun 29, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray	32 min
Jun 29, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington, Wilkinson	47 min
Jun 29, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson	47 min
Jun 29, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	36 min
Jun 29, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson	19 min
Jun 29, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	34 min
Jun 29, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Talbot	32 min
Jun 29, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens	50 min
Jun 29, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall	33 min
Jun 29, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Schley, Taylor	33 min
Jun 29, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jackson	33 min
Jun 29, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett	33 min
Jun 29, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Hall	35 min
Jun 29, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jackson	33 min
Jun 29, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	34 min
Jun 29, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Gwinnett	31 min
Jun 29, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	35 min
Jun 29, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilcox	35 min
Jun 29, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Oconee	35 min
Jun 29, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Rockdale, Walton	32 min
Jun 29, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	18 min
Jun 29, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Paulding, Polk	33 min
Jun 29, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe	35 min
Jun 29, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	36 min
Jun 29, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Oconee	34 min
Jun 29, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton	33 min
Jun 29, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry	35 min
Jun 29, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette	33 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.