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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 4, 1999Pulaski County, Georgia

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1999-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 583 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1999-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs34 min
Jun 4, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkinson20 min
Jun 4, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley36 min
Jun 4, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPulaski, Wilcox48 min
Jun 4, 8:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge, Pulaski51 min
Jun 4, 9:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilcox34 min
Jun 4, 9:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilcox18 min
Jun 5, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp33 min
Jun 5, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta34 min
Jun 5, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMurray, Whitfield34 min
Jun 5, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Heard37 min
Jun 5, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll34 min
Jun 5, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTroup36 min
Jun 5, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWhitfield36 min
Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa35 min
Jun 5, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga, Walker33 min
Jun 5, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd36 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.