Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1999, 10:48 AM EDT for Pulaski County, Wilcox County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Apr 15, 1999, 10:48 AM EDT (14:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 11:20 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pulaski County, GA, Wilcox County, GA
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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 151448 RRA
TORATL
GAC235-315-151520-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1048 AM EDT THU APR 15 1999
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
WILCOX COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1120 AM EDT
* AT 1043 AM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 3
MILES WEST OF PINEVIEW... MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
* THIS SEVERE STORM WILL LIKELY PASS NEAR HAWKINSVILLE OR
SOUTH OF HAWKINSVILLE AROUND 11 AM EDT.
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, 10:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dooly | 35 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 |
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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.