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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1999, 11:03 PM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 47 min. 3 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
- Feb 27, 1999, 11:03 PM EST (04:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1999, 11:50 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Henry County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA, Spalding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 11:30 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, GA | Meriwether county 911 reported trees and power lines down countywide. A mobile home was damaged 10 miles east of Greenville. |
| Feb 27, 11:40 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamson, GA | Pike county 911 reported trees down in the north end of the county near Williamson. |
| Feb 27, 11:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffin, GA | Spalding county 911 reported power lines were blown down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 9:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WUUS1 KATL 280405 RRA SVRATL GAC151-199-231-247-255-280450- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1103 PM EST SAT FEB 27 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HENRY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ROCKDALE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA SPALDING COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 1150 PM EST * AT 1101 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JONESBORO TO NEWNAN TO LAGRANGE MOVING EAST NEAR 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...CONYERS... MCDONOUGH...GRIFFIN...ZEBULON AND GREENVILLE. 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 EXTENSION 2 0 4.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 8:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 9:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 9:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Paulding | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 10:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cobb | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 10:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fulton | 62 min |
| Feb 27, 10:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 10:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 10:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 34 min |
| Feb 27, 11:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 11:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 34 min |
| Feb 27, 11:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 11:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 11:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 11:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Monroe | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.