Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1999, 7:55 AM EDT for Marion County, Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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
- Apr 15, 1999, 7:55 AM EDT (11:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marion County, GA, Webster County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 2381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 463 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 151155 RRA
TORATL
GAC197-307-151245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
755 AM EDT THU APR 15 1999
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MARION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
WEBSTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 845 AM EDT
* AT 753 AM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 12
MILES WEST OF DRANEVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
BUENA VISTA AROUND 815 AM EDT
DRANEVILLE AROUND 815 AM EDT
DOYLE AROUND 820 AM EDT
PUTNAM AROUND 820 AM EDT
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO A SHELTER
BELOW GROUND...OR TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
AVOID WINDOWS. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 6:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 8:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley, Taylor | 45 min |
| Apr 15, 9:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Webster | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 9:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Sumter | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 10:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dooly | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 10:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 11:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Treutlen | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 12:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 18 min |
| Apr 15, 12:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Toombs | 21 min |
| Apr 15, 1:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge | 33 min |
| Apr 15, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Treutlen | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 18 min |
| Apr 15, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 30 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.