Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1999, 10:10 AM EDT for Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Apr 15, 1999, 10:10 AM EDT (14:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 10:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dooly County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 10:20 AM EDT | Tornado F3 | Drayton, GA | An NWS Storm survey showed the tornado touched down along highway 27 at the Flint River near Drayton. The tornado hopped eastward along highway 27, demolishing pecan orchards and barns, before devastating the town of Vienna. It exited the town between 2 schoo |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 630 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 151410 RRA
TORATL
GAC093-151445-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1010 AM EDT THU APR 15 1999
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
DOOLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1045 AM EDT
* AT 1008 AM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 8
MILES SOUTHWEST OF LILLY... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
LILLY AROUND 1015 AM EDT...
VIENNA AROUND 1020 AM EDT...
UNADILLA AROUND 1025 AM EDT...
TIPPETTVILLE AROUND 1030 AM EDT...
LARGE HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
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, 7:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion, Webster | 50 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, 10:48 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.