Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 619, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1999, 7:02 PM EDT for Telfair County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1999, 7:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Telfair County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 7:24 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Mc Rae, GA | Telfair county 911 reported dime to quarter size hail. |
| Aug 19, 7:33 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Rae, GA | The McRae police and a utility company reported considerable damage from thunderstorm winds in McRae. One wall of an empty building on Railroad Street was blown down. Power lines were blown down on Walter Barrett Road. A tree fell on a truck on First Ave, and |
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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 554 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 35 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, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999
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.