Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1999, 3:05 AM EST for Carroll County, Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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
- Mar 3, 1999, 3:05 AM EST (08:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1999, 3:55 AM EST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, GA, Heard County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 3:25 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyus, GA | Carroll county 911, a spotter and a newspaper reported thunderstorm winds damaged a trailer on Waller Road in Tyus, lifting the front porch up and blocking the door. Four people were trapped inside but there were no injuries. The mobile home was actually shift |
| Mar 3, 3:25 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Waresville, GA | Heard county 911 reported thunderstorm winds knocked trees down, caused power outages, and blew 2 windows out of a house. |
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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 2566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 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 030807 RRA SVRATL GAC045-149-030855- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 305 AM EST WED MAR 3 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA HEARD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 355 AM EST * AT 303 AM EST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CLEBURNE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES IN ALABAMA MOVING EAST NEAR 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... CARROLLTON AND FRANKLIN. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 3:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 3:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 4:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 4:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 4:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.