Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 9:12 PM EDT for Candler County, Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 5, 1998, 9:12 PM EDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1998, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Candler County, GA, Tattnall County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Metter, GA | Numerous trees and powerlines down. |
| Jun 5, 9:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Glennville, GA | Trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 867 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
781 WUUS1 KCHS 060110 RRA SVRCHS GAC043-267-060200- BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 912 PM EDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CANDLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA TATTNALL COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 910 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING QUICKLY ACROSS TOOMBS COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EMANUEL COUNTY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... METTER AND MANASSAS BY 930 PM REIDSVILLE NEAR 930 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS ML
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 8:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 8:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 810 PM EDT FRI JUN 5 1998 STRONG BOW LINE WITH TRW MOVING ACROS CNTRL GA TOWARDS OUR SE GA CWA. THREAT AS WELL FURTHER TO N IN SC. LIKELY POPS LOOK GUD FOR THE ACTIVITY LATE THIS EVE...THEN VERY LOW IF ANY POP REST OF NITE. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO SUGGEST BEYOND THOSE ALREADY MADE FOR SVR WW. CSTL WATERS...ALREADY UPDATED THRU 1 AM FOR SEVERE WW. LAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Evans | 81 min |
| Jun 5, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 9:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham, Effingham | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.