Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1999, 3:25 PM EDT for Haralson County, Georgia. It was in force for 20 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 4, 1999, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1999, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Haralson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:25 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Tallapoosa, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 041926 TORATL GAC143-041945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 325 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN HARALSON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 324 PM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TALLAPOOSA... MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * THIS TORNADO WILL REMAIN MAINLY OVER RURAL AREAS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME...GO IMMEDIATELY TO THE NEAREST STRONG BUILDING. IF THERE IS NO TIME OR IF NO STRONG BUILDING IS NEARBY... SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR CULVERT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 12:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 1:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 17 min |
| Jun 4, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 19 min |
| Jun 4, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 3:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 20 min |
| Jun 4, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 19 min |
| Jun 4, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Upson | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oconee | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Putnam | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Newton | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Taylor | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Twiggs | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Webster | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 7:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 17 min |
| Jun 4, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.