Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 576, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1999, 1:39 PM EDT for Crawford 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
- Aug 13, 1999, 1:39 PM EDT (17:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1999, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 1:58 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Knoxville, GA | The sheriff's office reported trees down. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1845 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1383 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
406 WUUS52 KFFC 131739 RRA SVRATL GAC079-131815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 139 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 138 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES EAST OF ROBERTA OR 2 MILES EAST OF KNOXVILLE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 22 min |
| Aug 12, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 37 min |
| Aug 13, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 35 min |
| Aug 13, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 35 min |
| Aug 13, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 35 min |
| Aug 13, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 35 min |
| Aug 13, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 35 min |
| Aug 13, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 37 min |
| Aug 13, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.