Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1998, 10:50 PM EDT for Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports 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 18, 1998, 10:50 PM EDT (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 1998, 11:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gordon County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 11:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Calhoun, GA | |
| Apr 18, 11:07 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Calhoun, 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 18, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 589 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1082 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
755 WUUS1 KATL 190252 RRA SVRATL GAC129-190325- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1050 PM EDT SAT APR 18 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 1125 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... CALHOUN AROUND 1100 PM EDT BLACKWOOD AROUND 1100 PM EDT FARMVILLE AROUND 1105 PM EDT SONORAVILLE AROUND 1105 PM EDT RESACA AROUND 1105 PM EDT REDBUD AROUND 1110 PM EDT NICKELSVILLE AROUND 1110 PM EDT AUDUBON AROUND 1110 PM EDT * AT 1049 PM EDT... 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OOSTANAULA... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING NORTHEAST 40 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. PAH/GMB
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 18, 4:50 PM EDT, 6 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT....DELAYED REPORT....
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
450 PM EDT SAT APR 18 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1115 PM 1E PULASKI CO GA WIND DAMAGE
4/17/98 PULASKI TREES DOWN ON TRAILERS
NUMEROUS POWER LINES
DOWN ON COUNTY LINE
ROAD.
1200 AM DUBLIN GA WIND DAMAGE
4/17/98 LAURENS REPORTED BY LAURENS 911
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON
POWER LINES
1100 PM N PULASKI CO. GA WIND DAMAGE
4/17/98 PULASKI REPORTED BY PULASKI EMA
DIRECTOR HUNDREDS OF
TREES DOWN. SO FAR 11
HOMES DAMAGED OR
DESTROYED. MOST OF THE
DAMAGE DUE TO FALLEN
TREES.
1157 AM 4SE RINGGOLD GA WIND DAMAGE
4/17/98 CATOOSA REPORTED BY CATOOSA
SHERIFF DEPARTMENT.
HOUSE WITH ROOF DAMAGE
NUMEROUS TRESS DOWN.
150 AM JUNO GA WIND DAMAGE
4/17/98 DAWSON REPORTED BY DAWSON
911. NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN.
1200 AM KINGSTON GA WIND DAMAGE
4/17/98 FLOYD REPORTED BY FLOYD EMA
POWERS LINES DOWN BY
FALLING TREES.
755 PM SANDERSVILLE GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/17/98 WASHINGTON DIME SIZE HAIL AND
LARGER. REPORTED
BY PUBLIC BETWEEN
755 AND 757 PM.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 8:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 33 min |
| Apr 18, 8:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 9:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walker, Whitfield | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 10:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 34 min |
| Apr 18, 11:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 32 min |
| Apr 18, 11:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Twiggs | 33 min |
| Apr 19, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 1:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jones, Twiggs | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 1:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Warren | 31 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.