Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 561, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1999, 6:52 PM EDT for Haralson 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, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1999, 7:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Haralson County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Buchanan, GA | A paramedic reported lots of trees and some power lines down between Buchanan and Tallapoosa, and between Bremen and Waco. He also reported small hail. |
| Jul 29, 7:02 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Tallapoosa, GA | The public reported nickel 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 292253 RRA SVRATL GAC143-292325- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 652 PM EDT THU JUL 29 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 725 PM EDT * AT 650 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUDAPEST... MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... BUDAPEST AROUND 700 PM ... BREMEN AROUND 700 PM ... WACO AROUND 700 PM EDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. IF YOU SEE DAMAGE OR LARGE HAIL...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 770-486-1133 ATr 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, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 33 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 |
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.