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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 412, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 30, 1999Rockdale County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1999, 3:37 PM EDT for Rockdale County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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
Jun 30, 1999, 3:37 PM EDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1999, 4:25 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Rockdale County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 54 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1999-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 489 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1999-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
489 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 301936
SVRATL
GAC035-217-247-302025-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
337 PM EDT WED JUN 30 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUTTS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA
  NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA
  ROCKDALE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 425 PM EDT

* AT 336 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF JENKINSBURG... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   JENKINSBURG                 AROUND 350 PM EDT...
   JACKSON                     AROUND 405 PM EDT...
   FINCHERVILLE                AROUND 410 PM EDT...
   WORTHVILLE                  AROUND 415 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Houston, Pulaski35 min
Jun 29, 8:11 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCFayette34 min
Jun 29, 8:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Fayette34 min
Jun 29, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPulaski37 min
Jun 29, 9:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta50 min
Jun 30, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll33 min
Jun 30, 1:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTroup32 min
Jun 30, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Paulding48 min
Jun 30, 1:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard32 min
Jun 30, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta50 min
Jun 30, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether33 min
Jun 30, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow32 min
Jun 30, 2:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWebster33 min
Jun 30, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris33 min
Jun 30, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb33 min
Jun 30, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar37 min
Jun 30, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton32 min
Jun 30, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette, Spalding33 min
Jun 30, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGordon, Pickens33 min
Jun 30, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Fulton34 min
Jun 30, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe33 min
Jun 30, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter48 min
Jun 30, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, Henry, Spalding47 min
Jun 30, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGilmer35 min
Jun 30, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett48 min
Jun 30, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Newton48 min
Jun 30, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Houston36 min
Jun 30, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMarion, Schley, Taylor49 min
Jun 30, 3:53 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCDooly22 min
Jun 30, 3:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPulaski33 min
Jun 30, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper35 min
Jun 30, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon, Peach48 min
Jun 30, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWalton50 min
Jun 30, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMurray33 min
Jun 30, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston, Pulaski33 min
Jun 30, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Jones, Wilkinson51 min
Jun 30, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs32 min
Jun 30, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Laurens33 min
Jun 30, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Oglethorpe49 min
Jun 30, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWashington34 min
Jun 30, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWheeler34 min
Jun 30, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow33 min
Jun 30, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Pickens36 min
Jun 30, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb32 min
Jun 30, 7:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb34 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.