Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1999, 4:45 PM EDT for Dodge County, Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 15 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
- May 10, 1999, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1999, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 4:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Cedar Grove, GA | A milk delivery man 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 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 KATL 102050 RRC SVRATL GAC091-175-102100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 445 PM EDT MON MAY 10 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN DODGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 500 AM EDT * AT 443 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CEDAR GROVE IN LAURENS COUNTY... MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE TOWARD EASTMAN DURING THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. 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 10, 4:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 15 min |
| May 10, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 20 min |
| May 10, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 20 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.