Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1998, 2:07 PM EST for Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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
- Mar 8, 1998, 2:07 PM EST (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Heard County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 2:20 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Franklin, GA | Fire station 5 reported dime size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 514 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
014 WUUS1 KATL 081906 RRA SVRATL GAC149-081930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 207 PM EST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...HEARD COUNTY AT 207 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FRANKLIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. WRS
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, 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, 2:29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.