Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 359
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 2, 1999, 2:00 PM CDT for 15 counties in Alabama; 41 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1999, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1999, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Perry County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth 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, Lumpkin County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth, Fulton | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Walton | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | White | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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.
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.