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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 7, 1998Jones County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 7, 1998, 6:53 PM EST for Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 7, 1998, 6:53 PM EST (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Jan 7, 1998, 7:20 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Jones County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 7, 4:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 198 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

923 
WUUS1 KATL 072355 RRA
SVRATL
GAC169-080020-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
653 PM EST WED JAN 7 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  720 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...JONES COUNTY
 
AT 655 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN JONES
NEAR GRAY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
IF YOU EXPERIENCE STORM DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES OR TREES...OR HAIL THE
SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER...PLEASE REPORT IT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE BY CALLING 770-486-8535.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 7, 2:30 PM EST, 4 hours 23 minutes before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-080400-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
330 PM EDT WED JAN 07 1998

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH
AND CENTRAL GEORGIA FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD
EAST FROM ALABAMA INTO GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME
OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS
AND POSSIBLY HAIL.

SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND
CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.

Special weather statement, Jan 7, 3:30 PM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-080400-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
330 PM EDT WED JAN 07 1998

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH
AND CENTRAL GEORGIA FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD
EAST FROM ALABAMA INTO GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOMEL
OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS
AND POSSIBLY HAIL.

SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND
CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.

Local storm report, Jan 7, 4:06 PM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
406 PM EST WED JAN 7 1998

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

740 PM     GREENSBORO                GA   WIND DAMAGE
1/7/98     GREENE                         740-745 PM EST GREENE COUNTY
                                          911 REPORTS STRUCTURAL DAMAGE
                                          TO A FEW BUILDINGS. TREES
                                          WERE KNOCKED DOWN. A FEW
                                          WINDOWS WERE BLOWN OUT IN THE
                                          911 CENTER.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 7, 3:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	33 min
Jan 7, 3:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	31 min
Jan 7, 3:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	32 min
Jan 7, 4:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford	32 min
Jan 7, 5:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	30 min
Jan 7, 5:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Jones	34 min
Jan 7, 5:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb	33 min
Jan 7, 6:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Putnam	30 min
Jan 7, 6:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.