Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1999, 8:29 PM EDT for Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- May 10, 1999, 8:29 PM EDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1999, 9:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WUUS1 KATL 110031 RRA SVRATL GAC303-110105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 829 PM EDT MON MAY 10 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 905 PM EDT * AT 828 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF OCONEE... MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... OCONEE AROUND 900 PM EDT 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 10, 6:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
600 PM EDT MON MAY 10 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
455 PM CEDAR GROVE GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/10/99 LAURENS MILK DELIVERY MAN REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAIL AT
INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS
46 AND 126.Local storm report, May 10, 6:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
600 PM EDT MON MAY 10 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
455 PM CEDAR GROVE GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/10/99 LAURENS MILK DELIVERY MAN REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAIL AT
INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS
46 AND 126.Local storm report, May 10, 6:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
600 PM EDT MON MAY 10 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
455 PM CEDAR GROVE GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/10/99 LAURENS MILK DELIVERY MAN REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAIL AT
INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS
46 AND 126.
620 PM MINTER (13 ESE DUBLIN) GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/10/99 LAURENS SEVERAL REPORTS OF DIME SIZE
HAILNearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.