Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1998, 2:49 PM EDT for Hancock County, Warren County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1998, 3:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, GA, Warren County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.
007 WUUS1 KATL 191850 RRA SVRATL GAC141-301-191920- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 249 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL HANCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 320 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... WARRENTON AROUND 305 PM EDT NORWOOD AROUND 305 PM EDT CAMAK AROUND 305 PM EDT CADLEY AROUND 310 PM EDT MESENA AROUND 310 PM EDT * AT 247 PM EDT... 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAYFIELD... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING NORTHEAST 40 MPH. 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. KWM/TSM
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 19, 2:25 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
225 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
130 PM 2N MACON GA WIND DAMAGE
4/19/98 BIBB TOPS OFF TREES,
SHINGLES OFF
HOUSE. DIME SIZE
HAIL.
130 PM BYRON GA WIND DAMAGE
4/19/98 PEACH REPORTED ROOF DAMAGE,
TREES DOWN ON A HOUSE
POSSIBLE FUNNEL CLOUD.Local storm report, Apr 19, 2:25 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
225 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
130 PM 2N MACON GA WIND DAMAGE
4/19/98 BIBB TOPS OFF TREES,
SHINGLES OFF
HOUSE. DIME SIZE
HAIL.
130 PM BYRON GA WIND DAMAGE
4/19/98 PEACH REPORTED ROOF DAMAGE,
TREES DOWN ON A HOUSE
POSSIBLE FUNNEL CLOUD.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, 1:22 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 |
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.