Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 46, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1999, 8:38 AM EDT for Quitman County, Georgia. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 15, 1999, 8:38 AM EDT (12:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 9:40 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Quitman County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 8:45 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Countywide, GA | Several trees were knocked down across the northern part of the county. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 630 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 KBHM 151238 RRA TORBHM GAC239-151340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 738 AM CDT THU APR 15 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... QUITMAN COUNTY... IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA... * UNTIL 940 AM EDT (840 AM CDT). * AT 837 AM EDT... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO...ACROSS THE WESTERN PORTION OF QUITMAN COUNTY MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH. GO TO8 THE BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:21 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 8:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Stewart | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 8:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Stewart | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 9:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Quitman, Stewart | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.