Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 490, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1998, 8:11 AM EDT for Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- May 8, 1998, 8:11 AM EDT (12:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1998, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 081211 RRA SVRATL GAC153-081245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 811 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 845 AM EDT * AT 810 AM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 8 MILES WEST OF GROVANIA MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... GROVANIA AROUND 820 AM EDT PABST AROUND 820 AM EDT HAYNEVILLE AROUND 820 AM EDT WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...LIGHTNING POSES A SERIOUS DANGER. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. IF BOATING OR SWIMMING...GET TO LAND QUICKLY AND FIND SHELTER. IF IN THE OPEN FIND A LOW SPOT AWAY FROM TREES...FENCES...AND POLES. 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.
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, May 8, 4:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
GAZ030>039-041>062-080915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 420 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA... POLK...PAULDING...COBB...FULTON...GWINETT...BARROW...CLARKE... OGLETHORPE...CARROLL...DOUGLAS... DEKALB... WALTON...OCONEE... WILKES...HEARD...COWETA...FAYETTE...CLAYTON...ROCKDALE... NEWTON...HENRY...SPALDING...BUTTS...JASPER...PUTNAM...MORGAN ...GREENE...HANCOCK...WARREN...TALIAFERRO...HARALSON... 49
Special weather statement, May 8, 4:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
GAZ030>039-041>062-080915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 420 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA... POLK...PAULDING...COBB...FULTON...GWINETT...BARROW...CLARKE... OGLETHORPE...CARROLL...DOUGLAS... DEKALB... WALTON...OCONEE... WILKES...HEARD...COWETA...FAYETTE...CLAYTON...ROCKDALE... NEWTON...HENRY...SPALDING...BUTTS...JASPER...PUTNAM...MORGAN ...GREENE...HANCOCK...WARREN...TALIAFERRO...HARALSON... 49
Special weather statement, May 8, 6:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-081635- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 615 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998 ONGOING THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA WILL DISSIPATE DURING THE EARLY MORNING DAYLIGHT HOURS OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA. OTHERWISE... THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE TODAY NOR TONIGHT OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR PERSISTS OVER THE NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA AREA THIS MORNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA ARE BEING FOCUSED BY AN OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS STORMS. THESE STORMS WILL GRADUALLY DISSIPATE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. MEANWHILE...A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI AND NORTH ALABAMA THIS MORNING AND APPROACH NORTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER THE LACK OF STRONG UPPER AIR DYNAMICS WILL LIMIT ENERGY AVAILABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY ALTHOUGH ACTIVATION WILL PROBABLY NOT BE REQUIRED.
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, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 32 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, 8:31 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
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.