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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 608, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1999, 2:55 PM EDT for Macon County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 2 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 19, 1999, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1999, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:00 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Oglethorpe, GA | |
| Aug 19, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Oglethorpe, GA | Macon county 911 reported nickel to quarter size hail and power lines blown 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
913 WUUS52 KFFC 191855 RRA SVRATL GAC193-191930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 255 PM EDT THU AUG 19 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MACON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 255 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 1 MILE NORTH OF OGLETHORPE... MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... OGLETHORPE... 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.
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, Aug 19, 10:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041-043>051-062-191700- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1015 AM EDT THU AUG 19 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF GEORGIA. THE RISK AREA INCLUDES ATLANTA AND ATHENS. SURFACE WINDS CONVERGE ALONG A LINE FROM WEST OF ATLANTA...THROUGH ATLANTA...TO THE AUGUSTA AREA. THE CONVERGENCE WILL CAUSE AIR NEAR THE SURFACE TO RISE. ALSO...A COLD AIR MASS APPROACHING NORTH GEORGIA FROM THE TENNESSEE VALLEY WILL INCREASE THE RISING MOTION THROUGH A DEEP LAYER OF THE ATMOSPHERE. AS A RESULT...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND BECOME MORE NUMEROUS BY THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN NORTH GEORGIA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 10:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041-043>051-062-191700- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1015 AM EDT THU AUG 19 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF GEORGIA. THE RISK AREA INCLUDES ATLANTA AND ATHENS. SURFACE WINDS CONVERGE ALONG A LINE FROM WEST OF ATLANTA...THROUGH ATLANTA...TO THE AUGUSTA AREA. THE CONVERGENCE WILL CAUSE AIR NEAR THE SURFACE TO RISE. ALSO...A COLD AIR MASS APPROACHING NORTH GEORGIA FROM THE TENNESSEE VALLEY WILL INCREASE THE RISING MOTION THROUGH A DEEP LAYER OF THE ATMOSPHERE. AS A RESULT...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND BECOME MORE NUMEROUS BY THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN NORTH GEORGIA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 37 min |
| Aug 19, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| Aug 19, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wheeler | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 32 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.