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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 474, NWS Birmingham, AL

August 12, 1999Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1999, 7:24 PM EDT for Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 12, 1999, 7:24 PM EDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1999, 7:55 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Muscogee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1999-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2056 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1999-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2056 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1175 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery34 min
Aug 12, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby34 min
Aug 12, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone, Madison50 min
Aug 12, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone35 min
Aug 12, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone18 min
Aug 12, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison32 min
Aug 12, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson32 min
Aug 12, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount36 min
Aug 12, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone33 min
Aug 12, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChattahoochee, Muscogee32 min
Aug 12, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChattahoochee, Muscogee31 min
Aug 12, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXStewart49 min
Aug 12, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChattahoochee, Muscogee31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.