Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 158
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 15, 1999, 6:30 AM CDT for 6 counties in Alabama; 38 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1999, 6:30 AM CDT (11:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Barbour County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Houston County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:29 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.
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 6:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion, Webster | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley, Taylor | 45 min |
| Apr 15, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 7:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 7:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Stewart | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 7:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Quitman | 62 min |
| Apr 15, 7:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Stewart | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 7:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Randolph | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 8:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Webster | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 8:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Quitman, Stewart | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 8:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Sumter | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 9:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dooly | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 9:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 10:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Treutlen | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 11:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 18 min |
| Apr 15, 11:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Toombs | 21 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 463 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar, Lauderdale and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 24 more | 6 hr |
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.