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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 30, 1999Dooly County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1999, 3:53 PM EDT for Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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 30, 1999, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1999, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Dooly County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 30, 4:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Unadilla, GA	The Dooly county sheriff reported dime size hail.

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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 489 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -31 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 301952 RRA
TORATL
GAC093-302015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
353 PM EDT WED JUN 30 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DOOLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 353 PM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR  3
  MILES NORTHEAST OF BYROMVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 10 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski	35 min
Jun 29, 8:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Fayette	34 min
Jun 29, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	34 min
Jun 29, 8:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	37 min
Jun 29, 9:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	50 min
Jun 30, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	33 min
Jun 30, 1:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	32 min
Jun 30, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	48 min
Jun 30, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	32 min
Jun 30, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	50 min
Jun 30, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	33 min
Jun 30, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	32 min
Jun 30, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Webster	33 min
Jun 30, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	33 min
Jun 30, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	33 min
Jun 30, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar	37 min
Jun 30, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	32 min
Jun 30, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette, Spalding	33 min
Jun 30, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon, Pickens	33 min
Jun 30, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Fulton	34 min
Jun 30, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	33 min
Jun 30, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	48 min
Jun 30, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Henry, Spalding	47 min
Jun 30, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	35 min
Jun 30, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	48 min
Jun 30, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Newton	48 min
Jun 30, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Rockdale	48 min
Jun 30, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Houston	36 min
Jun 30, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Schley, Taylor	49 min
Jun 30, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	33 min
Jun 30, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	35 min
Jun 30, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Peach	48 min
Jun 30, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	50 min
Jun 30, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray	33 min
Jun 30, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Pulaski	33 min
Jun 30, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson	51 min
Jun 30, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	32 min
Jun 30, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Laurens	33 min
Jun 30, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Oglethorpe	49 min
Jun 30, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	34 min
Jun 30, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wheeler	34 min
Jun 30, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	33 min
Jun 30, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	36 min
Jun 30, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	32 min
Jun 30, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	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.