Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1998, 5:23 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 5:35 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Louisville, GA | Jefferson county 911 reported quarter size hail between Louisville and Wrens. |
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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 226 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.
000 TTAA00 KATL 222123 RRA SVRATL GAC163-222210- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 523 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 610 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... STELLAVILLE AROUND 530 PM EDT LOUISVILLE AROUND 530 PM EDT MATTHEWS AROUND 535 PM EDT * AT 522 PM EDT... 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WRENS... 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. 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, 1 hour 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
Local storm report, Apr 22, 5:15 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
515 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
455 PM WINDER GA 0.75 inch hail
4/22/98 BARROW DIME SIZE HAIL AN INCH
DEEP ON GROUNDLocal storm report, Apr 22, 5:15 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
515 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
455 PM WINDER GA 0.75 inch hail
4/22/98 BARROW DIME SIZE HAIL AN INCH
DEEP ON GROUNDThe 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, 5:08 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, 5:29 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.