Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 257, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1998, 7:47 PM EDT for Hancock County, Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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 21, 1998, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 1998, 8:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, GA, Putnam County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 212347 RRA SVRATL GAC141-237-220035- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 747 PM EDT TUE APR 21 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 835 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... NONA AROUND 800 PM EDT FLAT ROCK AROUND 810 PM EDT * AT 747 PM EDT... 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NONA... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST 10 MPH. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BOATERS...GOLFERS... AND OTHERS INVOLVED IN OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU EXPERIENCE STORM 6DAMAGE 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. WS/MPM
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, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Putnam | 51 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 |
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.