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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 666, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 22, 1999Telfair County, Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1999, 3:01 PM EDT for Telfair County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 1999, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1999, 3:20 PM EDT
In force
19 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Telfair County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1999-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1223 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1999-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
1223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 221901 RRA
SVRATL
GAC271-309-221920-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
301 PM EDT SUN AUG 22 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN AND SOUTHEASTERN TELFAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHERN WHEELER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 320 PM EDT

* AT 259 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALAMO OR 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF LUMBER
  CITY... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL REMAIN IN THE VICINITY OF LUMBER CITY.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 12:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens33 min
Aug 22, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPulaski35 min
Aug 22, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens33 min
Aug 22, 2:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens22 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.