Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 436, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1999, 3:52 PM EDT for Gilmer 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
- Jul 6, 1999, 3:52 PM EDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1999, 4:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gilmer County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1066 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1170 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 061953 RRA SVRATL GAC123-062025- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 352 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GILMER COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 425 PM EDT * AT 352 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 2 MILES EAST OF ELLIJAY... MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... ELLIJAY AROUND 420 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
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 11:46 AM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
GAZ038-039-050-051-060>062-072>076-082>086-094>098-105>113-062045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1146 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999 A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. IT INCLUDES AN AREA EAST OF A LINE NEAR ELBERTON IN ELBERT COUNTY TO MACON... ALBANY TO WAYCROSS AND SAINT SIMMONS ISLAND. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING WESTWARD THROUGH THE FLOW... ALONG WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MIGHT REACH SEVERE LIMITS BY PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 11:46 AM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
GAZ038-039-050-051-060>062-072>076-082>086-094>098-105>113-062045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1146 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999 A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. IT INCLUDES AN AREA EAST OF A LINE NEAR ELBERTON IN ELBERT COUNTY TO MACON... ALBANY TO WAYCROSS AND SAINT SIMMONS ISLAND. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING WESTWARD THROUGH THE FLOW... ALONG WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MIGHT REACH SEVERE LIMITS BY PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 5:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton | 115 min |
| Jul 6, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 6:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 33 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.