Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1999, 4:05 PM EDT for Carroll County, Haralson County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min. 3 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
- May 7, 1999, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1999, 4:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, GA, Haralson County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:22 PM EDT | Tornado F2 | Jake, GA | Sight survey by NWS personnel and newspaper accounts determined that the tornado touched down in Carroll county near Five Points Road and Mt Zion Road. The storm path was to the northeast across Interstate 20 and then into Haralson county. All along the path t |
| May 7, 4:29 PM EDT | Tornado F2 | Bremen, GA | The tornado continued northeast from Carroll county and crossed into Haralson county southwest of Bremen. There was heavy damage to a mobile home dealership in Bremen, where around 35 mobile homes were damaged or destroyed. Debris was tossed across the highway |
| May 7, 4:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Temple, GA | The public reported thunderstorm winds took tree tops off and partially knocked a chain link fence 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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GAC045-143-072035-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
405 PM EDT FRI MAY 7 1999
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
* UNTIL 435 PM EDT
* AT 401 PM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5
MILES WEST OF BURWELL... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
BURWELL AROUND 405 PM EDT
JAKE AROUND 410 PM EDT
MOUNT ZION AROUND 410 PM EDT
BOWDON JUNCTION AROUND 415 PM EDT
SEEK SHELTER IN THE BASEMENT UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY
FURNITURE. OR...GO TO AN INTERIOR CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO COVER
YOUR BODY. IF YOU SEE DAMAGE OR LARGE HAIL...CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE AT 770-486-1133 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 20 min |
| May 7, 4:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 32 min |
| May 7, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 36 min |
| May 7, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 35 min |
| May 7, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 30 min |
| May 7, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll | 13 min |
| May 7, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns | 34 min |
| May 7, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding | 33 min |
| May 7, 4:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 32 min |
| May 7, 4:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb | 36 min |
| May 7, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 33 min |
| May 7, 4:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding | 34 min |
| May 7, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 35 min |
| May 7, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll | 32 min |
| May 7, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 36 min |
| May 7, 5:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 33 min |
| May 7, 5:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 49 min |
| May 7, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 47 min |
| May 7, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 33 min |
| May 7, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 33 min |
| May 7, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 35 min |
| May 7, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 32 min |
| May 7, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta | 37 min |
| May 7, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 50 min |
| May 7, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Paulding | 31 min |
| May 7, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 48 min |
| May 7, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 36 min |
| May 7, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 50 min |
| May 7, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 51 min |
| May 7, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 34 min |
| May 7, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 35 min |
| May 7, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 31 min |
| May 7, 7:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 47 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.