Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 275, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1998, 7:02 PM EDT for Jasper County, Jones County, Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1998, 7:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Putnam County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:10 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Monticello, GA | |
| Apr 22, 7:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Gray, 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 301 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 2 hours 39 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
Local storm report, Apr 22, 5:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 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, 1 hour 47 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, 5:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
526 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
515 PM GIBSON GA 0.75 inch hail
4/22/98 GLASCOCK DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY PUBLICThe 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, 5:23 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, 7:34 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.