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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 7, 1999Carroll County, Haralson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1999, 4:33 PM EDT for Carroll County, Haralson County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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: May 7, 1999, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1999, 5:05 PM EDT
In force: 32 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, 4:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Temple, GA	The public reported thunderstorm winds took tree tops off and partially knocked a chain link fence down.
May 7, 5:06 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Clem, GA	The public reported dime 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 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, 8.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 072033 RRA
TORATL
GAC045-143-072105-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
433 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 505 PM EDT

* AT 431 PM EDT... CARROLL COUNTY EMA REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
BOWDEN JUNCTION JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 AT EXIT W...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
    BREMEN                      AROUND 435 PM EDT
    DRAKETOWN                   AROUND 450 PM EDT
    VILLA RICA                  AROUND 455 PM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO A SHELTER
BELOW GROUND...OR TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
AVOID WINDOWS. 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, 4:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	30 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, 4:34 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

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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.