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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 578, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 13, 1999Monroe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1999, 2:03 PM EDT for Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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, 2:03 PM EDT (18:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1999, 2:40 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 13, 2:20 PM EDTThunderstorm WindForsyth, GAThe Monroe county sheriff's office reported trees blown down on Joe Chambers road in Forsyth and on highway 18 west of Forsyth.

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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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 1999-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1845 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 1999-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll22 min
Aug 12, 9:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll33 min
Aug 13, 1:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford36 min
Aug 13, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLumpkin34 min
Aug 13, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJones36 min
Aug 13, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaylor32 min
Aug 13, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper34 min
Aug 13, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCOconee36 min
Aug 13, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaylor35 min
Aug 13, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCNewton34 min
Aug 13, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHenry32 min
Aug 13, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMorgan35 min
Aug 13, 4:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether36 min
Aug 13, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly33 min
Aug 13, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter32 min
Aug 13, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPulaski32 min
Aug 13, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter35 min
Aug 13, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett35 min
Aug 13, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris35 min
Aug 13, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett37 min
Aug 13, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris35 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.