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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 438, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 7, 1998Banks County, Hall County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1998, 11:03 PM EDT for Banks County, Hall 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, 11:03 PM EDT (03:03 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1998, 11:35 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Banks County, GA, Hall County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 7, 11:27 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Homer, GA	The public reported dime to golf ball 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
May 7, 9:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 7, 9:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 2212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 923 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 9.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 080303 RRA
SVRATL
GAC011-139-080335-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1103 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA
  EASTERN HALL COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1135 PM EDT

* AT 1102 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LULA MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   LULA                        AROUND 1110 PM EDT
   GILLSVILLE                  AROUND 1110 PM EDT
   ALTO                        AROUND 1115 PM EDT
   MAYSVILLE                   AROUND 1120 PM EDT
   HOMER                       AROUND 1125 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 770H-486-8535.


PAH/KDF

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, 10:45 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1045 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1020 AM    SUGERLOAF                 GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     GWINNETT                       DIME SIZE HAIL BEHIND
                                          GWINNETT PLACE MALL

1115 AM    WESTERN ATHENS            GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     CLARKE

842 AM     BALL GROUND               GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     CHEROKEE

940 AM     CARROLL COUNTY            GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     CARROLL

1011 AM                              GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     BARTOW

1000 AM    PLAINVILLE                GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     GORDON

340 PM     HIAWASSE                  GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     TOWNS                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL AN A FUNNEL
                                          CLOUD SPOTTED.

400 PM     9 N BLAIRSVILLE           GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     UNION

358 PM     LAKE NOTTELY              GA   TORNADO
5/7/98     UNION

406 PM     HIAWASEE                  GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     TOWNS

409 PM     YOUNG HARRIS              GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     TOWNS                          GOLF BALL TO BASEBALL SIZE

428 PM     1 S DAWSONVILLE           GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     DAWSON                         DIME AND LARGER HAIL

420 PM     HIAWASEE                  GA   1.25 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     TOWNS

436 PM     6 N GAINESVILLE           GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     HALL

443 PM     RESACA                    GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     WHITFIELD

515 PM     3 E BLAIRSVILLE           GA   TORNADO
5/7/98     UNION                          TREES DOWN ON CARS.

600 PM     2 NE CANTON               GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     CHEROKEE                       2 HAM SPOTTERS REPORTED
                                          FUNNEL CLOUD AND QUARTER
                                          SIZE HAIL.

1050 AM    WINDER                    GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     BARROW

1100 AM    ATHENS                    GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     CLARKE                         QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZE
                                          HAIL.

1100 AM    LITHONIA                  GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     DEKALB

1135 AM    LEXINGTON                 GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     OGLETHORPE

915 AM     CEDARTOWN                 GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     POLK

355 PM     7 N BLAIRSVILLE           GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     UNION                          DIME SIZE HAIL..POWER LINES

405 PM     10 W YOUNG HARRIS         GA   TORNADO
5/7/98     UNION                          EMA DIR REPORTED TORNADO
                                          10 WEST YOUNG HARRIS MOVING
                                          EAST.

503 PM                               GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     BANKS

535 PM     10 E ELLIJAY              GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     GILMER                         PUBLIC REPORTS QUARTER TO
                                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.

550 PM     WALESKA                   GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     CHEROKEE

643 PM     CLERMONT                  GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     HALL                           FUNNEL CLOUD MOVING SOUTHEAST

645 PM     WHITFIELD COUNTY          GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     WHITFIELD

615 PM     TRENTON                   GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     DADE                           GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL DAMAGED
                                          A HOUSE...LIMBS DOWNED.
                                          REPORTED FROM 615 TO 630 PM.

825 PM     4 N CARTERSVILLE          GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     BARTOW                         QUARTER SIZE HAIL

828 PM     CUMMING                   GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     FORSYTH

755 PM     JASPER                    GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     PICKENS                        QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

815 PM     10 W CUMMING              GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     FORSYTH                        GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL

820 PM     CARTERSVILLE              GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     BARTOW                         DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
                                          REPORTED BETWEEN 820 AND 830 PM.

812 PM     DUCKTOWN                  GA   2.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     FORSYTH                        GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL SIZE
                                          HAIL REPORTD BETWEEN 812 AND 817
                                          PM.

813 PM     ADAIRSVILLE               GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     BARTOW                         DIME SIZE HAIL FROM 813 TO
                                          817 PM.

815 PM     2 N CASSVILLE             GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     BARTOW                         QUARTER TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          815 TO 820 PM.

545 PM     NEAR DAWSONVILLE          GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     DAWSON                         QUARTER SIZE HAIL

609 PM     FREEHOLM                  GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     CHEROKEE                       GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL

611 PM     1 W DAHLONEGA             GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     LUMPKIN

621 PM     CUMMING                   GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     FORSYTH                        GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL

650 PM     BRASELTON                 GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     JACKSON

653 PM     TIGNAL                    GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     WILKES

729 PM     CHATOOGA CITY             GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     WALKER

738 PM     ATHENS                    GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     CLARKE

737  PM    CHATOOGA CITY             GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     WALKER                         QUARTER SIZE HAIL SEVERAL
                                          TREES DOWN. TREE ON DEPUTYS
                                          CAR.

625 PM     ROCK SPRINGS              GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     WALKER

645 PM     FLOWERY BRANCH            GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     HALL                           QUARTER TO GOLFBALL SIZE

727 PM     ATHENS                    GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     CLARKE                         FUNNEL CLOUD..HIGH WINDS AND
                                          QUARTER TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL

759 PM     BALL GROUND               GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/7/98     CHEROKEE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	34 min
May 7, 8:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkes	48 min
May 7, 8:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gwinnett, Hall	33 min
May 7, 8:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Wilkes	34 min
May 7, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	47 min
May 7, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	48 min
May 7, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	36 min
May 7, 9:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	37 min
May 7, 9:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Oconee	51 min
May 7, 9:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	49 min
May 7, 9:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	47 min
May 7, 9:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	32 min
May 7, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe	47 min
May 7, 10:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Gordon	35 min
May 7, 10:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	48 min
May 7, 10:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	51 min
May 7, 10:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	34 min
May 7, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns, Union	34 min
May 7, 11:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	48 min
May 7, 11:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	34 min
May 7, 11:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	48 min
May 7, 11:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard	49 min
May 7, 11:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	48 min
May 8, 12:08 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Carroll	32 min
May 8, 12:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Walton	33 min
May 8, 12:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Paulding	48 min
May 8, 12:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton	33 min
May 8, 12:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton	35 min
May 8, 12:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Oconee, Walton	48 min
May 8, 12:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	51 min
May 8, 1:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	47 min
May 8, 1:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	34 min
May 8, 1:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Oglethorpe	51 min
May 8, 1:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fulton	34 min
May 8, 1:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Spalding	50 min
May 8, 1:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	36 min
May 8, 1:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Heard	33 min
May 8, 1:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taliaferro, Wilkes	49 min
May 8, 1:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts	52 min
May 8, 2:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	33 min
May 8, 2:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	51 min
May 8, 2:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Spalding	37 min
May 8, 2:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Monroe	51 min
May 8, 2:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	49 min
May 8, 3:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin	51 min
May 8, 3:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb	33 min
May 8, 3:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Washington	33 min
May 8, 3:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	49 min
May 8, 4:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	47 min
May 8, 4:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Monroe	32 min
May 8, 4:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	33 min
May 8, 4:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb	35 min
May 8, 4:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	34 min
May 8, 5:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	36 min
May 8, 5:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Talbot	32 min
May 8, 5:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor, Upson	35 min
May 8, 5:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Talbot	31 min
May 8, 6:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford	50 min
May 8, 6:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Peach	34 min
May 8, 6:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor	33 min
May 8, 6:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Twiggs	36 min
May 8, 6:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Peach	36 min
May 8, 6:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens	46 min
May 8, 7:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	18 min
May 8, 7:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley	35 min
May 8, 7:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor	34 min
May 8, 7:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Treutlen	35 min
May 8, 7:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon	31 min
May 8, 8:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Toombs	50 min
May 8, 8:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	34 min
May 8, 8:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	34 min
May 8, 8:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge	34 min
May 8, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	18 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.