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Tornado Watch 229

May 7, 19995 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 7, 1999, 2:15 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 1999, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1999, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 83 counties

Autauga County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Lee County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Union County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Buncombe County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Bradley County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

46 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Union	30 min
May 7, 2:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	32 min
May 7, 2:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	49 min
May 7, 2:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Randolph	35 min
May 7, 2:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Carroll	13 min
May 7, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Swain	65 min
May 7, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	30 min
May 7, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	31 min
May 7, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Clay	30 min
May 7, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns	34 min
May 7, 3:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Randolph	32 min
May 7, 3:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Paulding	33 min
May 7, 3:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	32 min
May 7, 3:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	32 min
May 7, 3:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cobb	36 min
May 7, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	33 min
May 7, 3:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Paulding	34 min
May 7, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee	35 min
May 7, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Carroll	32 min
May 7, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gordon, Pickens	36 min
May 7, 4:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	33 min
May 7, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley	48 min
May 7, 4:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Cherokee	4 hr
May 7, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee	49 min
May 7, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	47 min
May 7, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	33 min
May 7, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	33 min
May 7, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	35 min
May 7, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson	33 min
May 7, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin	32 min
May 7, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Coweta	37 min
May 7, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson	34 min
May 7, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns, Union	50 min
May 7, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Haywood	47 min
May 7, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Douglas, Paulding	31 min
May 7, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	48 min
May 7, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	36 min
May 7, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	50 min
May 7, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, White	51 min
May 7, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	47 min
May 7, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas	34 min
May 7, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	35 min
May 7, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lee	31 min
May 7, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	31 min
May 7, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Troup	47 min
May 7, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	46 min

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 58 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: 362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
May 7, 2:15 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 1 more	6 hr
May 7, 11:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brantley, Camden, Charlton	5 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Georgia, 1999 Tornado Watches in Alabama, 1999 Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 1999 Every tornado watch in 1999

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.