Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1999, 9:04 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Georgia. It was in force for 21 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
- Jun 4, 1999, 9:04 PM EDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1999, 9:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pulaski County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 050105 TORATL GAC235-050125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 904 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 925 PM EDT * AT 903 PM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 8 MILES EAST OF WALLACE... MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THIS TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS. 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.f
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 20 min |
| Jun 4, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 18 min |
| Jun 5, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.