Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 444, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1999, 5:35 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Johnson County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Jul 6, 1999, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1999, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Emanuel County, GA, Johnson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1066 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1170 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 062137 RRA SVRATL GAC107-167-062210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 535 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 610 PM EDT * AT 544 PM EDT... A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR OVER CENTRAL AND EAST JOHNSON COUNTY...AND EXTREME WEST EMANUEL COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. * THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL P<OSSIBLE 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
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 11:46 AM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
GAZ038-039-050-051-060>062-072>076-082>086-094>098-105>113-062045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1146 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999 A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. IT INCLUDES AN AREA EAST OF A LINE NEAR ELBERTON IN ELBERT COUNTY TO MACON... ALBANY TO WAYCROSS AND SAINT SIMMONS ISLAND. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING WESTWARD THROUGH THE FLOW... ALONG WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MIGHT REACH SEVERE LIMITS BY PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 11:46 AM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
GAZ038-039-050-051-060>062-072>076-082>086-094>098-105>113-062045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1146 AM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999 A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. IT INCLUDES AN AREA EAST OF A LINE NEAR ELBERTON IN ELBERT COUNTY TO MACON... ALBANY TO WAYCROSS AND SAINT SIMMONS ISLAND. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING WESTWARD THROUGH THE FLOW... ALONG WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MIGHT REACH SEVERE LIMITS BY PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 5:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton | 115 min |
| Jul 6, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 6:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 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.