Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 567, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1999, 5:50 PM EDT for Heard County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 8, 1999, 5:50 PM EDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1999, 6:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Heard County, GA, Troup County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 1652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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 082151 RRA SVRATL GAC149-285-082225- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 550 PM EDT SUN AUG 8 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HEARD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA NORTHERN TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 625 PM EDT * AT 549 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA GRANGE OR IN THE VICINITY OF GLENN... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS. 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, Aug 8, 1:11 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-090100- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 111 PM EDT SUN AUG 8 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN TENNESSEE AND NORTH ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH AND WEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON...AND SPREAD INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD STAY BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 1:11 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-090100- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 111 PM EDT SUN AUG 8 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN TENNESSEE AND NORTH ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH AND WEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON...AND SPREAD INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD STAY BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.