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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1998, 3:22 PM EDT for Putnam 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 22, 1998, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1998, 3:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 900 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
997 WUUS1 KATL 221921 RRA SVRATL GAC237-221955- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 322 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 355 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... PHOENIX AROUND 330 PM EDT * AT 319 PM EDT... 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUDDEN... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING EAST 15 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.
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
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 9:58 AM EDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-222100- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 958 AM EDT WED APR 22 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A LARGE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE WILL CONTINUE TO DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE PRODUCING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR THE LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. 17
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 9:58 AM EDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-222100- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 958 AM EDT WED APR 22 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A LARGE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE WILL CONTINUE TO DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE PRODUCING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR THE LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. 17
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 32 min |
| Apr 21, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 35 min |
| Apr 21, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 66 min |
| Apr 21, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler | 63 min |
| Apr 21, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson | 66 min |
| Apr 21, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Treutlen | 66 min |
| Apr 22, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Walton | 47 min |
| Apr 22, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Putnam | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Walton | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Apr 22, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 36 min |
| Apr 22, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 37 min |
| Apr 22, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Putnam | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 36 min |
| Apr 22, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 36 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.