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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 22, 1998Marion County, Webster County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 22, 1998, 12:42 PM EST for Marion County, Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 22, 1998, 12:42 PM EST (17:42 UTC)
Expired
Jan 22, 1998, 1:15 PM EST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Marion County, GA, Webster County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1998-01-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1998-01-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 246 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 221742 RRA
SVRATL
GAC197-307-221815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1242 PM EST THU JAN 22 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MARION COUNTY...WEBSTER COUNTY
 
AT 1240 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED AROUND 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BUENA VISTA MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
 
DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING
ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BOATERS, GOLFERS, AND OTHERS
INVOLVED IN OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 22, 3:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Wilcox48 min
Jan 22, 4:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens27 min
Jan 22, 4:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair39 min
Jan 22, 5:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWheeler25 min
Jan 22, 5:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Treutlen36 min
Jan 22, 5:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMontgomery, Toombs25 min
Jan 22, 6:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCToombs22 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.