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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 497, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 21, 1999Coweta County, Spalding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1999, 6:42 PM EDT for Coweta County, Spalding 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 21, 1999, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 1999, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Coweta County, GA, Spalding County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1999-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 316 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1999-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
316 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 212243 RRA
SVRATL
GAC077-255-212315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
642 PM EDT WED JUL 21 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN COWETA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
  WESTERN SPALDING COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 641 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  4 MILES NORTH OF SENOIA... MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   SENOIA                      AROUND 715 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

Local storm report, Jul 21, 6:00 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
600 PM EDT WED JUL 21 1999

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

430 PM     DAWSONVILLE               GA   WIND DAMAGE
07/21/99   DAWSON                         TREES BLOWN DOWN

440 PM     3 SE JEFFERSON            GA   WIND DAMAGE
07/21/99   JACKSON                        TREES BLOWN DOWN

500 PM     8 NE CANTON               GA   WIND DAMAGE
07/21/99   CHEROKEE                       TREES BLOWN DOWN

553 PM     STOCKBRIDGE               GA   WIND DAMAGE
07/21/99   HENRY                          POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 3:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHall34 min
Jul 21, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson, Lumpkin36 min
Jul 21, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, Henry35 min
Jul 21, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Fulton35 min
Jul 21, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette35 min
Jul 21, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.