Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 450, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1999, 6:19 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Hancock County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1999, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1999, 6:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baldwin County, GA, Hancock County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sparta, GA | Hancock county 911 reported several trees were down on power lines. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 062220 RRA SVRATL GAC009-141-062255- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 619 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BALDWIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA HANCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 655 PM EDT * AT 618 PM EDT... A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR FROM MILLEDGEVILLE TO SPARTA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHWEST LESS THAN 5 MPH. * THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT MILLEDGEVILLE AND SPARTA. 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.
| 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, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 35 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, 6:24 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 |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.