Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 514, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1998, 3:27 PM EDT for Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 10, 1998, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1998, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 619 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 101927 RRA SVRATL GAC317-102000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 327 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WILKES COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 326 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF AONIA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... AONIA AROUND 340 PM EDT 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 DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. IF YOU EXPERIENCE STORM DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES OR TREES...OR HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES ORl 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 10, 11:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-110000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1130 AM EDT SUN MAY 10 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BLUE RIDGE IN FANNIN COUNTY TO ROME IN FLOYD COUNTY. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA TO BE IN SOUTH CAROLINA BY THIS EVENING. AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE STATE TODAY. VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY INGREDIENTS FOR FOR THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE STORMS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUST ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
Special weather statement, May 10, 11:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-110000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1130 AM EDT SUN MAY 10 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BLUE RIDGE IN FANNIN COUNTY TO ROME IN FLOYD COUNTY. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA TO BE IN SOUTH CAROLINA BY THIS EVENING. AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE STATE TODAY. VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY INGREDIENTS FOR FOR THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE STORMS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUST ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
Local storm report, May 10, 11:38 AM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1138 AM EDT SUN MAY 10 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
945 AM HELEN GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
5/10/98 WHITE DIME TO QUARTER
SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY WHITE COUNTY 911.Local storm report, May 10, 11:38 AM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1138 AM EDT SUN MAY 10 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
945 AM HELEN GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
5/10/98 WHITE DIME TO QUARTER
SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY WHITE COUNTY 911.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 12:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding, Polk | 36 min |
| May 10, 12:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 35 min |
| May 10, 12:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Fulton | 33 min |
| May 10, 12:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 35 min |
| May 10, 12:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 34 min |
| May 10, 12:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 34 min |
| May 10, 1:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 52 min |
| May 10, 1:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Hall, Jackson | 33 min |
| May 10, 2:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 32 min |
| May 10, 3:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 35 min |
| May 10, 3:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 36 min |
| May 10, 3:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 35 min |
| May 10, 4:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 34 min |
| May 10, 4:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 32 min |
| May 10, 5:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee, Walton | 49 min |
| May 10, 5:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 49 min |
| May 10, 6:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 35 min |
| May 10, 8:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 36 min |
| May 10, 9:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | White | 20 min |
| May 10, 12:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.