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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 8, 1998Montgomery County, Toombs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1998, 10:49 AM EST for Montgomery County, Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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, 10:49 AM EST (15:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 1998, 11:15 AM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Toombs County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

883 
WUUS1 KATL 081548 RRA
SVRATL
GAC209-279-081615-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1049 AM EST SUN MAR 8 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...TOOMBS COUNTY
 
AT 1048 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR MOUNT VERNON IN MONTGOMERY 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.

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, 10:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	30 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

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.