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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1998, 2:49 PM EST for Sumter 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, 2:49 PM EST (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumter 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, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.
000 TTAA00 KATL 081949 RRA SVRATL GAC261-082015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 249 PM EST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SUMTER COUNTY AT 250 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST LESLIE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BOATERS, GOLFERS, AND OTHERS INVOLVED IN OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. 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. GMB/WR*S
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, 11:12 AM EST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-082300- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1112 AM EST SUN MAR 8 1998 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON FROM COLUMBUS TO PERRY TO LYONS IN TOOMBS COUNTY AND SOUTHWARD. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REMAINDER OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. A WARMFRONT DRIFTING SLOWLY NORTH ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA AT LATE MORNING WILL ALLOW MOIST UNSTABLE AIR TO SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL FEATURE OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL ADVANCE EASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON ADDING FURTHER DESTABILIZATION TO THE AIRMASS OVER THE SOUTHEAST. THUS THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANANGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON SINCE ACTIVATION MAY BECOME NECESSARY.
Local storm report, Mar 8, 1:35 PM EST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
135 PM EST SUN MAR 8 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
125 PM SENOIA GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
3/8/98 COWETA
126 PM PEACHTREE CITY GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
3/8/98 FAYETTE DIME SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED
BETWEEN SEOIA AND PEACHTREE
CITYThe 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, 2:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 2:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 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.