Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 309, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1998, 3:38 AM EDT for Banks 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
- May 1, 1998, 3:38 AM EDT (07:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1998, 4:10 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Banks County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:42 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Homer, 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
614 WUUS1 KATL 010740 RRA SVRATL GAC011-010810- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 338 AM EDT FRI MAY 1 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 410 AM EDT * AT 336 AM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES EAST OF HOMER MOVING NORTH AT 30 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. LEW/SBL
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, May 1, 12:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...COR TIME...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1250 AM EDT FRI MAY 1 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
749 PM EAST MACON GA 0.75 inch hail
4/30/98 BIBB BIBB COUNTY 911 REPORTS DIME
SIZE HAIL IN EAST MACON
1235 AM SUNNYSIDE GA 0.75 inch hail
5/1/98 SPALDING PUBLIC REPORTS DIME TO
NICKLE SIZE HAIL
1245 AM HAMPTON GA 0.75 inch hail
5/1/98 HENRY HENRY COUNTY 911 REPORTS
DIME SIZE HAIL
1240 AM STARRS MILL GA 0.75 inch hail
5/1/98 FAYETTE PUBLIC REPORTS DIME TO
NICKLE SIZE HAIL IN SOUTH
FAYETTE COUNTYLocal storm report, May 1, 12:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...COR TIME...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1250 AM EDT FRI MAY 1 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
749 PM EAST MACON GA 0.75 inch hail
4/30/98 BIBB BIBB COUNTY 911 REPORTS DIME
SIZE HAIL IN EAST MACON
1235 AM SUNNYSIDE GA 0.75 inch hail
5/1/98 SPALDING PUBLIC REPORTS DIME TO
NICKLE SIZE HAIL
1245 AM HAMPTON GA 0.75 inch hail
5/1/98 HENRY HENRY COUNTY 911 REPORTS
DIME SIZE HAIL
1240 AM STARRS MILL GA 0.75 inch hail
5/1/98 FAYETTE PUBLIC REPORTS DIME TO
NICKLE SIZE HAIL IN SOUTH
FAYETTE COUNTYLocal storm report, May 1, 1:03 AM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1250 PM EDT THU APR 30 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
749 PM EAST MACON GA 0.75 inch hail
4/30/98 BIBB BIBB COUNTY 911 REPORTS DIME
SIZE HAIL IN EAST MACON
1235 AM SUNNYSIDE GA 0.75 inch hail
5/1/98 SPALDING PUBLIC REPORTS DIME TO
NICKLE SIZE HAIL
1245 AM HAMPTON GA 0.75 inch hail
5/1/98 HENRY HENRY COUNTY 911 REPORTS
DIME SIZE HAIL
1240 AM STARRS MILL GA 0.75 inch hail
5/1/98 FAYETTE PUBLIC REPORTS DIME TO
NICKLE SIZE HAIL IN SOUTH
FAYETTE COUNTYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Webster | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 11:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 11:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 11:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 50 min |
| May 1, 12:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 34 min |
| May 1, 12:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 34 min |
| May 1, 12:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 18 min |
| May 1, 12:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 36 min |
| May 1, 12:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 33 min |
| May 1, 1:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 20 min |
| May 1, 1:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 32 min |
| May 1, 2:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 49 min |
| May 1, 3:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 34 min |
| May 1, 3:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 35 min |
| May 1, 3:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 35 min |
| May 1, 4:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 33 min |
| May 1, 4:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.