Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 1998, 1:24 AM EDT for Gordon County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 17, 1998, 1:24 AM EDT (05:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1998, 2:10 AM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gordon County, GA, Pickens County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 1:45 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Jasper, GA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 10:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
067 WUUS1 KATL 170525 RRA SVRATL GAC129-227-170610- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 124 AM EDT FRI APR 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 210 AM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... FAIRMOUNT AROUND 125 AM EDT RANGER AROUND 125 AM EDT OAKMAN AROUND 130 AM EDT LUDVILLE AROUND 130 AM EDT HINTON AROUND 135 AM EDT BLAINE AROUND 135 AM EDT TALKING ROCK AROUND 140 AM EDT JASPER AROUND 145 AM EDT TATE AROUND 150 AM EDT MARBLEHILL AROUND 150 AM EDT * AT 120 AM EDT... 6 MILES WEST OF RANGER... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST 45 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT IN OR NEAR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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. MSS/PAH
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
Local storm report, Apr 16, 11:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1116 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1054 PM TRENTON GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/16/98 DADE DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
1106 PM TRENTON GA 60 MPH TSTM GUST
4/16/98 DADE SPOTTER REPORTED 60 MPH WINDSLocal storm report, Apr 16, 11:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1116 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1054 PM TRENTON GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/16/98 DADE DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
1106 PM TRENTON GA 60 MPH TSTM GUST
4/16/98 DADE SPOTTER REPORTED 60 MPH WINDSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 11:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 11:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 11:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 18 min |
| Apr 17, 12:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 12:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 12:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 1:04 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 51 min |
| Apr 17, 1:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 1:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 2:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, White | 48 min |
| Apr 17, 3:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 3:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 7:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 35 min |
| Apr 17, 7:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 7:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley | 21 min |
| Apr 17, 8:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 35 min |
| Apr 17, 8:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Twiggs | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 8:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Marion, Schley | 48 min |
| Apr 17, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Macon | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 35 min |
| Apr 17, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 18 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1998Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.