Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 580, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1999, 2:38 PM EDT for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. 3 reports 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, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1999, 3:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 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, 3:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Butler, GA | |
| Aug 13, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler, GA | Taylor county 911 reported dime size hail and large tree limbs blown down. |
| Aug 13, 3:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Butler, GA |
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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.
000 TTAA00 KATL 131837 RRA SVRATL GAC269-131910- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 238 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TAYLOR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 310 PM EDT * AT 236 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES EAST OF BUTLER OR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF POTTERVILLE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... POTTERVILLE... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO \AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. 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, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 36 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, 2:51 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.