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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 22, 1998Dodge County, Wilcox County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 22, 1998, 3:42 PM EST for Dodge County, Wilcox County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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: Jan 22, 1998, 3:42 PM EST (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Jan 22, 1998, 4:30 PM EST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dodge County, GA, Wilcox County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 22, 4:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Rochelle, GA	A truck driver reported several trees were knocked down on highway 129.

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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 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.

606 
WUUS1 KATL 222043 RRA
SVRATL
GAC091-315-222130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
342 PM EST THU JAN 22 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...DODGE COUNTY...EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY
 
AT 341 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5
MILES WEST OF ABBEVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 22, 12:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Webster	33 min
Jan 22, 4:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	27 min
Jan 22, 4:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	39 min
Jan 22, 5:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wheeler	25 min
Jan 22, 5:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	36 min
Jan 22, 5:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	25 min
Jan 22, 6:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	22 min

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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.