Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1998, 10:15 AM EST for Telfair County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 8, 1998, 10:15 AM EST (15:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 10:45 AM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Telfair County, GA, Wheeler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
681 WUUS1 KATL 081514 RRA SVRATL GAC271-309-081545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1015 AM EST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...TELFAIR COUNTY...WHEELER COUNTY AT 1015 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCRAE IN TELFAIR COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT IN OR NEAR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...LIGHTNING POSES A SERIOUS DANGER. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES, UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. IF BOATING OR SWIMMING...GET TO LAND QUICKLY AND FIND SHELTER. IF IN THE OPEN FIND A LOW SPOT AWAY FROM TREES, FENCES, AND POLES.
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, Mar 8, 6:44 AM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
GAZ069-078>086-091>098-103>113-081245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 644 AM EST SUN MAR 8 1998 A TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... HARRIS...TALBOT...UPSON...CRAWFORD...BIBB...TWIGGS...WILKINSON... JOHNSON...EMANUEL...TREUTLEN...LAURENS...BLECKLEY...HOUSTON... PEACH...MACON...SCHLEY...WEBSTER...MARION AND TAYLOR. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL OVER THESE COUNTIES THROUGH 9 AM...HOWEVER THERE IS NO LONGER A THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS MORNING. KM
Special weather statement, Mar 8, 6:44 AM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
GAZ069-078>086-091>098-103>113-081245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 644 AM EST SUN MAR 8 1998 A TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... HARRIS...TALBOT...UPSON...CRAWFORD...BIBB...TWIGGS...WILKINSON... JOHNSON...EMANUEL...TREUTLEN...LAURENS...BLECKLEY...HOUSTON... PEACH...MACON...SCHLEY...WEBSTER...MARION AND TAYLOR. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL OVER THESE COUNTIES THROUGH 9 AM...HOWEVER THERE IS NO LONGER A THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS MORNING. KM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 4:51 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 1:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 29 min |
| Mar 8, 2:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 2:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 2:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 4:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 22 min |
| Mar 8, 4:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker, Whitfield | 44 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.