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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 15, 1999Emanuel County, Toombs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1999, 12:39 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 21 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, 12:39 PM EDT (16:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 1999, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Emanuel County, GA, Toombs County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 15, 12:45 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Stillmore, GA	The Emanuel county 911 center reported a few trees down and hail of unknown size in Stillmore. They received numerous reports from the public and county sheriff deputies of a funnel cloud in the Oak Park area There were public reports of a tornado between Oak

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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 294 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 151639 RRA
TORATL
GAC107-279-151700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1239 PM EDT THU APR 15 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN TOOMBS IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 100 PM EDT

* AT 1236 PM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR  10
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF STILLMORE... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...

    OAK PARK                    AROUND 1245 PM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO A SHELTER
BELOW GROUND...OR TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON lTHE 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, 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, 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.