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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 8, 1998Chattooga County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1998, 4:23 PM EST for Chattooga County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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, 4:23 PM EST (21:23 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 1998, 4:45 PM EST
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Chattooga County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 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

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The text

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

750 
WUUS1 KATL 082122 RRA
SVRATL
GAC055-082145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
423 PM EST SUN MAR 8 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...CHATTOOGA COUNTY
 
AT 422 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SUMMERVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
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.
 
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.
 
WRS

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, 5 hours 11 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, 2 hours 48 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
                                          CITY

Local storm report, Mar 8, 2:54 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
254 PM EST SUN MAR 8 1998

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

138 PM     MORELAND                  GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
3/8/98     COWETA                         GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WAS
                                          REPORTED BETWEEN 138 AND 141
                                          PM IN THE MORELAND AREA.  A
                                          NEIGHBOR REPORTED A FUNNEL
                                          CLOUD IN THE AREA AROUND THE
                                          SAME TIME.

220 PM     8 NE FRANKLIN             GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
3/8/98     HEARD                          FIRE STATION  5 ON HIGHWAY
                                          34 REPORTED DIME SIZED HAIL
                                          FROM 220 TO 225 PM.

Local storm report, Mar 8, 2:54 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
254 PM EST SUN MAR 8 1998

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

138 PM     MORELAND                  GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
3/8/98     COWETA                         GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WAS
                                          REPORTED BETWEEN 138 AND 141
                                          PM IN THE MORELAND AREA.  A
                                          NEIGHBOR REPORTED A FUNNEL
                                          CLOUD IN THE AREA AROUND THE
                                          SAME TIME.

220 PM     8 NE FRANKLIN             GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
3/8/98     HEARD                          FIRE STATION  5 ON HIGHWAY
                                          34 REPORTED DIME SIZED HAIL
                                          FROM 220 TO 225 PM.

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, 2:07 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, 4:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker, Whitfield	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1998 Every 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.