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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 21, 1998Jasper County, Putnam County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1998, 5:59 PM EDT for Jasper County, Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min. 3 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 21, 1998, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 1998, 6:50 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jasper County, GA, Putnam County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 21, 6:00 PM EDT	Hail 1	Monticello, GA
Apr 21, 6:30 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Willard, GA	Dime size hail was reported near the intersection of highways 142 and 300.
Apr 21, 6:55 PM EDT	Hail 1	Eatonton, 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1015 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 212159 RRA
SVRATL
GAC159-237-212250-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
559 PM EDT TUE APR 21 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JASPER COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA
  PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 650 PM EDT

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   FARRAR                      AROUND 605 PM EDT
   WILLARD                     AROUND 620 PM EDT

* AT 558 PM EDT...  8 MILES SOUTH OF FARRAR... A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST 15 MPH.

WS/MPM


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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	32 min
Apr 21, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	34 min
Apr 21, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	34 min
Apr 21, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall	46 min
Apr 21, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	46 min
Apr 21, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	31 min
Apr 21, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Putnam	50 min
Apr 21, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene	35 min
Apr 21, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones	47 min
Apr 21, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Putnam	48 min

Nearby

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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.