Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1998, 4:46 PM EST for Walker County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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, 4:46 PM EST (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 5:15 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Chickamauga, GA |
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, 4:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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.
887 WUUS1 KATL 082145 RRA SVRATL GAC295-313-082230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 446 PM EST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...WALKER COUNTY...WHITFIELD COUNTY AT 445 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF SUMMERVILLE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE DALTON AREA BY 515 PM. 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.
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, 4:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 22 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.