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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 22, 1998Jasper County, Putnam County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1998, 5:03 PM EDT for Jasper County, Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired
Apr 22, 1998, 5:35 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jasper County, GA, Putnam County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 303 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1998-04-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1998-04-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 222103 RRA
SVRATL
GAC159-237-222135-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
503 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 535 PM EDT

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   WILLARD                     AROUND 525 PM EDT

* AT 501 PM EDT...  9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILLARD... A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST 15 MPH.



SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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.

MPM/WRS

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, 4:23 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>071-073>076-
078>081-094-222330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
423 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998

...HAIL PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL
GEORGIA...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTH AND
PORTIONS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL AND IN SOME
PLACES THE HAIL WAS COVERING THE GROUND.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS MOVING ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA
THIS AFTERNOON AND THE ATMOSPHERE ALOFT IS MUCH COLDER THAN NORMAL.
THIS COMBINATION OF SYNOPTIC FEATURES IS PRODUCING THE SMALL HAIL.

PAH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 21, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin32 min
Apr 21, 8:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHancock35 min
Apr 21, 8:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWashington66 min
Apr 21, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMontgomery, Telfair, Wheeler63 min
Apr 21, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGlascock, Jefferson66 min
Apr 21, 9:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Johnson, Treutlen66 min
Apr 22, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPutnam33 min
Apr 22, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Gwinnett, Walton47 min
Apr 22, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow33 min
Apr 22, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGlascock, Warren32 min
Apr 22, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClarke, Oconee, Walton35 min
Apr 22, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJefferson47 min
Apr 22, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Cherokee36 min
Apr 22, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPutnam37 min
Apr 22, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Jasper35 min
Apr 22, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper33 min
Apr 22, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper, Jones, Putnam48 min
Apr 22, 7:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin36 min
Apr 22, 7:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJones36 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.