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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 23, 1998Bibb County, Twiggs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1998, 5:28 PM EDT for Bibb County, Twiggs 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 23, 1998, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 1998, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bibb County, GA, Twiggs County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 304 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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.

426 
WUUS1 KATL 232129 RRA
SVRATL
GAC021-289-232200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
528 PM EDT THU APR 23 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   BULLARD                     AROUND 540 PM EDT
   JEFFERSONVILLE              AROUND 545 PM EDT

* AT 527 PM EDT...  2 MILES NORTH OF HUBER... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING SOUTHEAST 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.


TWM/MSS

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

Local storm report, Apr 23, 4:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
418 PM EDT THU APR 23 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

407 PM     SOCIAL CIRCLE             GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
4/23/98    WALTON                         REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC.

408 PM     SOCIAL CIRCLE             GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
4/23/98    WALTON                         REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC.

407 PM     SOCIAL CIRCLE             GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
4/23/98    WALTON                         DIME SIZE HAIL COVERING THE
                                          GROUND. REPORTED BY THE
                                          PUBLIC.

KDF

Local storm report, Apr 23, 4:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
418 PM EDT THU APR 23 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

407 PM     SOCIAL CIRCLE             GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
4/23/98    WALTON                         REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC.

408 PM     SOCIAL CIRCLE             GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
4/23/98    WALTON                         REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC.

407 PM     SOCIAL CIRCLE             GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
4/23/98    WALTON                         DIME SIZE HAIL COVERING THE
                                          GROUND. REPORTED BY THE
                                          PUBLIC.

KDF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Twiggs	33 min
Apr 23, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Walton	49 min
Apr 23, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones	48 min
Apr 23, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Peach	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1998 Every 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.