Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 558, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1999, 4:32 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 29, 1999, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1999, 5:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 4:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Canton, GA | |
| Jul 29, 4:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Canton, GA | Cherokee county 911 reportd dime size hail and trees 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1285 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 292035 RRA SVRATL GAC057-292105- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 432 PM EDT THU JUL 29 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 505 PM EDT * AT 432 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WALESKA... MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... WALESKA AROUND 440 PM ... KEITHSBURG AROUND 455 PM ... CANTON AROUND 500 PM ... BUFFINGTON AROUND 500 PM ... CHEROKEE AROUND 505 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 770-48,6-1133 AT EXTENSION 2 0 4.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta | 35 min |
| Jul 29, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley | 34 min |
| Jul 29, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cobb, Paulding | 49 min |
| Jul 29, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.