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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 22, 1998Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 22, 1998, 4:18 PM EST for Laurens 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 22, 1998, 4:18 PM EST (21:18 UTC)
Expired
Jan 22, 1998, 4:45 PM EST
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Laurens County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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.

834 
WUUS1 KATL 222119 RRA
SVRATL
GAC175-222145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
418 PM EST THU JAN 22 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...LAURENS COUNTY
 
AT 418 PM EST DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING
LAURENS COUNTY 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DUBLIN. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 30 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 22, 12:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMarion, Webster33 min
Jan 22, 3:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Wilcox48 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

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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.