Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 23, 1999, 11:43 AM EST for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Jan 23, 1999, 11:43 AM EST (16:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 1999, 12:15 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laurens County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 391 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 231643 RRA SVRATL GAC175-231715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1143 AM EST SAT JAN 23 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAURENS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1215 PM EST * AT 1142 AM EST... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCKLEDGE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... MINTER AROUND 1155 AM EST ROCKLEDGE AROUND NOON EST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. IF YOU SEE DAMAGE OR LARGE HAIL...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 770.486.1133 EXTENSION 204. $$ DH/DH
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
Special weather statement, Jan 23, 8:00 AM EST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-230600- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 800 AM EST SAT JAN 23 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS MORNING. THE GREATEST THREAT IS EAST OF A LINE FROM BLUE RIDGE TO ATLANTA TO AMERICUS THIS MORNING. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE STATE THIS MORNING. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ACCOMPANY THE LINE. THE LINE SHOULD BE EAST OF GEORGIA BY NOON. NO FURTHER SEVERE CONNECTIVE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED AFTER THE LINE PASSES. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS CLOUD DEVELOP BEHIND THE LINE THIS AFTERNOON. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR THIS SITUATION. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR ACTIVATION THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Jan 23, 8:00 AM EST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-230600- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 800 AM EST SAT JAN 23 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS MORNING. THE GREATEST THREAT IS EAST OF A LINE FROM BLUE RIDGE TO ATLANTA TO AMERICUS THIS MORNING. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE STATE THIS MORNING. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ACCOMPANY THE LINE. THE LINE SHOULD BE EAST OF GEORGIA BY NOON. NO FURTHER SEVERE CONNECTIVE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED AFTER THE LINE PASSES. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS CLOUD DEVELOP BEHIND THE LINE THIS AFTERNOON. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR THIS SITUATION. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR ACTIVATION THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Jan 23, 8:10 AM EST, 3 hours 33 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-232000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 810 AM EST SAT JAN 23 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS MORNING. THE GREATEST THREAT IS EAST OF A LINE FROM BLUE RIDGE TO ATLANTA TO AMERICUS THIS MORNING. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE STATE THIS MORNING. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ACCOMPANY THE LINE. THE LINE SHOULD BE EAST OF GEORGIA BY NOON. NO FURTHER SEVERE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED AFTER THE LINE PASSES. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP BEHIND THE LINE THIS AFTERNOON. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR THIS SITUATION. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR ACTIVATION THIS MORNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 4:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 31 min |
| Jan 23, 5:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 36 min |
| Jan 23, 6:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 34 min |
| Jan 23, 10:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 33 min |
| Jan 23, 12:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Jan 23, 12:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Toombs, Treutlen | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.