Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 1998, 8:38 PM EDT for Marion County, Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Apr 17, 1998, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1998, 9:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marion County, GA, Webster County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 17, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1346 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
166 WUUS1 KATL 180040 RRA SVRATL GAC197-307-180110- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 838 PM EDT FRI APR 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MARION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 910 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... PRESTON AROUND 850 PM EDT BERGINSVILLE AROUND 900 PM EDT * AT 834 PM EDT... 11 MILES WEST OF PRESTON... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING NORTHEAST 30 MPH. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...LIGHTNING POSES A SERIOUS DANGER. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. IF BOATING OR SWIMMING...GET TO LAND QUICKLY AND FIND SHELTER. IF IN THE OPEN FIND A LOW SPOT AWAY FROM TREES...FENCES...AND POLES. 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. WRS/ML
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 17, 8:03 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
803 PM EDT FRI APR 17 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
553 PM IDEAL GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 MACON REPORTED BY THE MACON COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE
604 PM MONTEZUMA GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 MACON REPORTED BY THE MACON COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE
640 PM LIZELLA GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 CRAWFORD REPORTED BY PUBLIC
645 PM MACON GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 BIBB REPORTED BY PUBLIC
700 PM 6 SE MACON GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 BIBB REPORTED BY PUBLIC
700 PM 5 SE MACON GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 BIBB REPORTED BY PUBLIC
703 PM S MACON GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 BIBB REPORTED BY PUBLIC
710 PM GORDON GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 WILKINSON REPORTED BY PUBLIC
715 PM DRY BRANCH GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 TWIGGS REPORTED BY PUBLICLocal storm report, Apr 17, 8:03 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
803 PM EDT FRI APR 17 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
553 PM IDEAL GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 MACON REPORTED BY THE MACON COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE
604 PM MONTEZUMA GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 MACON REPORTED BY THE MACON COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE
640 PM LIZELLA GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 CRAWFORD REPORTED BY PUBLIC
645 PM MACON GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 BIBB REPORTED BY PUBLIC
700 PM 6 SE MACON GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 BIBB REPORTED BY PUBLIC
700 PM 5 SE MACON GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 BIBB REPORTED BY PUBLIC
703 PM S MACON GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 BIBB REPORTED BY PUBLIC
710 PM GORDON GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 WILKINSON REPORTED BY PUBLIC
715 PM DRY BRANCH GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 TWIGGS REPORTED BY PUBLICThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Webster | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 9:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 48 min |
| Apr 17, 10:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 11:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 11:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 11:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 12:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 12:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson | 21 min |
| Apr 18, 12:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 17 min |
| Apr 18, 12:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 20 min |
| Apr 18, 7:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.