Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1999, 4:59 PM EDT for Columbia County, Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, GA, Richmond County, GA
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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, 5:22 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Augusta, GA | Highway Dept. reported several trees down in old Augusta. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 4:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 52 min |
| Apr 15, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 5:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 6:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 34 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.