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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 1998, 8:44 AM EST for Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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
- Feb 17, 1998, 8:44 AM EST (13:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 1998, 9:15 AM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spalding County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 6:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 626 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 581 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 171344 RRA SVRATL GAC255-171415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 844 AM EST TUE FEB 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SPALDING COUNTY AT 843 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF GRIFFIN...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. REPORTS OF DIME SIZE HAIL AND LARGER WERE REPORTED WITH THIS STORM NEAR BROOKS WITHIN THE PAST 30 MINUTES. 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. &
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, Feb 17, 2:51 AM EST, 5 hours 53 minutes before
GAZ001>166-170850 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 350 AM EST TUE FEB 17 1998 TORNADO WATCH #41 FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS OCCURRING IN THIS AREA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT... BUT THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.
Special weather statement, Feb 17, 3:50 AM EST, 4 hours 54 minutes before
GAZ001>166-170850 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 350 AM EST TUE FEB 17 1998 TORNADO WATCH 41 FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS OCCURRING IN THIS AREA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT... BUT THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.
Local storm report, Feb 17, 6:50 AM EST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
650 AM EST TUE FEB 17 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0555 AM I-85 IN COWETA COUNTY GA 0.25 inch hail
2/17/98 COWETA PEA SIZE HAIL
0610 AM CARROLL COUNTY GA 0.75 inch hail
2/17/98 CARROLL DIME SIZE HAIL
0545 AM FRANKLIN GA 0.75 inch hail
2/17/98 HEARD DIME SIZE HAIL
0625 AM ROCKMART GA 0.75 inch hail
2/17/98 POLK DIME SIZE HAILLocal storm report, Feb 17, 6:50 AM EST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
650 AM EST TUE FEB 17 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0555 AM I-85 IN COWETA COUNTY GA 0.25 inch hail
2/17/98 COWETA PEA SIZE HAIL
0610 AM CARROLL COUNTY GA 0.75 inch hail
2/17/98 CARROLL DIME SIZE HAIL
0545 AM FRANKLIN GA 0.75 inch hail
2/17/98 HEARD DIME SIZE HAIL
0625 AM ROCKMART GA 0.75 inch hail
2/17/98 POLK DIME SIZE HAILThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 5:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 31 min |
| Feb 17, 5:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 29 min |
| Feb 17, 6:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 58 min |
| Feb 17, 7:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 44 min |
| Feb 17, 8:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 28 min |
| Feb 17, 8:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry, Rockdale | 33 min |
| Feb 17, 8:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 33 min |
| Feb 17, 8:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 25 min |
| Feb 17, 8:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 33 min |
| Feb 17, 8:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 25 min |
| Feb 17, 8:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 25 min |
| Feb 17, 8:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 31 min |
| Feb 17, 9:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 37 min |
| Feb 17, 10:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.