Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 439, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1999, 4:27 PM EDT for Hall 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
- Jul 6, 1999, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1999, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hall County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:30 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Gainesville, GA | The public reported quarter 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 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, 8.5 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
- 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 062028 RRA SVRATL GAC139-062100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 427 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HALL COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 427 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES EAST OF GAINESVILLE... MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... GAINESVILLE AROUND 440 PM EDT... CANDLER AROUND 450 PM EDT... BELMONT AROUND 450 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 41 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 41 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, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 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, 4:45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.