Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 268, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1998, 5:08 PM EDT for Glascock County, Warren County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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 22, 1998, 5:08 PM EDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1998, 5:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Glascock County, GA, Warren County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 5:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Gibson, 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 1422 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
625 WUUS1 KATL 222107 RRA SVRATL GAC125-301-222140- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 508 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GLASCOCK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 540 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... GIBSON AROUND 510 PM EDT EDGEHILL AROUND 510 PM EDT BASTONVILLE AROUND 515 PM EDT * AT 507 PM EDT... 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GIBSON... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST 15 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 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. WS/MPM
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, 45 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.
| 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, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 33 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, 5:20 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
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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.