Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 408, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1998, 3:48 PM EDT for Towns 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 7, 1998, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1998, 4:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Towns County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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 7, 4:06 PM EDT | Hail 2.75 | Young Harris, GA | The public reported golf ball to baseball size hail in Young Harris. Up to one and a half inch diameter hail was reported in Hiawassee. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 650 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 071948 RRA SVRATL GAC281-072020- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 348 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 420 PM EDT * AT 348 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 10 MILES WEST OF ALEXANDERS MILL MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... ALEXANDERS MILL AROUND 400 PM EDT YOUNG HARRIS AROUND 405 PM EDT HIAWASSEE AROUND 410 PM EDT PRESLEY AROUND 415 PM EDT 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. 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. KDF/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, May 7, 11:09 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1109 AM EDT THU MAY 7 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
842 AM BALL GROUND GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98 CHEROKEE
1011 AM 2S ADAIRSVILLE GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98 BARTOW DIME TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL
1000 AM PLAINVILLE GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98 GORDON DIME TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL
17Local storm report, May 7, 11:09 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1109 AM EDT THU MAY 7 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
842 AM BALL GROUND GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98 CHEROKEE
1011 AM 2S ADAIRSVILLE GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98 BARTOW DIME TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL
1000 AM PLAINVILLE GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98 GORDON DIME TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL
17The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 36 min |
| May 7, 9:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 35 min |
| May 7, 9:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 32 min |
| May 7, 9:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 35 min |
| May 7, 9:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 34 min |
| May 7, 9:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 36 min |
| May 7, 9:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 36 min |
| May 7, 10:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 36 min |
| May 7, 10:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale | 50 min |
| May 7, 10:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth | 34 min |
| May 7, 11:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Jackson | 31 min |
| May 7, 11:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 34 min |
| May 7, 11:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 33 min |
| May 7, 11:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 36 min |
| May 7, 12:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 18 min |
| May 7, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 35 min |
| May 7, 3:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fannin | 32 min |
| May 7, 3:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Union | 36 min |
| May 7, 4:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Towns | 33 min |
| May 7, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 49 min |
| May 7, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 50 min |
| May 7, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 32 min |
| May 7, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer, Lumpkin | 34 min |
| May 7, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 49 min |
| May 7, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 35 min |
| May 7, 6:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 20 min |
| May 7, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 47 min |
| May 7, 6:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 36 min |
| May 7, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 35 min |
| May 7, 6:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walker | 36 min |
| May 7, 6:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall | 33 min |
| May 7, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 49 min |
| May 7, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 33 min |
| May 7, 6:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns | 36 min |
| May 7, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 36 min |
| May 7, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 32 min |
| May 7, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oconee | 51 min |
| May 7, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Murray | 33 min |
| May 7, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 36 min |
| May 7, 7:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pickens | 33 min |
| May 7, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 35 min |
| May 7, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 34 min |
| May 7, 7:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 32 min |
| May 7, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 51 min |
| May 7, 7:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 34 min |
| May 7, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.