Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1998, 1:22 PM EDT for Bibb County, Houston County, Twiggs County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 19, 1998, 1:22 PM EDT (17:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1998, 1:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bibb County, GA, Houston County, GA, Twiggs County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
695 WUUS1 KATL 191724 RRA SVRATL GAC021-153-289-191755- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 122 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 155 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... DRY BRANCH AROUND 130 PM EDT FITZPATRICK AROUND 130 PM EDT MYRICKS MILL AROUND 135 PM EDT * AT 121 PM EDT... 8 MILES WEST OF HUBER... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING NORTHEAST 40 MPH. 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. KWM/TSM
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, 10:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 35 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, 1:35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.