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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1999, 11:21 PM EST for Harris County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Feb 27, 1999, 11:21 PM EST (04:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1999, 11:55 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harris County, GA, Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:21 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 9:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 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 280423 RRA SVRATL GAC145-263-280455- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1121 PM EST SAT FEB 27 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1155 PM EST * AT 1120 PM EST... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SHILOH... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... SHILOH AROUND 1125 PM EST FLINT HILL AROUND 1125 PM EST WOODLAND AROUND 1130 PM EST TALBOTTON AROUND 1135 PM EST PRATTSBURG AROUND 1145 PM EST 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 EXTENSION 2 0 4.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 8:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 9:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 9:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Paulding | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 10:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cobb | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 10:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fulton | 62 min |
| Feb 27, 10:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 10:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 10:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 34 min |
| Feb 27, 11:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 11:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 11:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 11:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 11:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 11:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Monroe | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.