Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 535, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1998, 12:56 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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 30, 1998, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1998, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Montgomery County, GA, Toombs County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 1:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tarrytown, GA | Montgomery county 911 reported trees down, tops blown off buildings, power lines down, and some hail of unknown size. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
358 WUUS1 KATL 301659 SVRATL GAC209-279-301730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1256 PM EDT SAT MAY 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA TOOMBS IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 130 PM EDT * AT 1255 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 8 NORTHEAST OF MOUNT VERNON MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. 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 30, 12:40 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-DDHHMM- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 108 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS THE CAROLINAS AND TENNESSEE WILL BE THE FOCUS OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. A MODERATELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS SOUTH OF THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE STATE AS A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER TODAY. EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MONITOR THE SITUATION. 66
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 36 min |
| May 29, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 35 min |
| May 30, 11:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Laurens | 60 min |
| May 30, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Treutlen | 32 min |
| May 30, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 33 min |
| May 30, 12:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro | 33 min |
| May 30, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington, Wilkinson | 34 min |
| May 30, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 48 min |
| May 30, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen | 47 min |
| May 30, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 32 min |
| May 30, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 33 min |
| May 30, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 31 min |
| May 30, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 34 min |
| May 30, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Peach | 33 min |
| May 30, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler | 35 min |
| May 30, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 32 min |
| May 30, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 35 min |
| May 30, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 35 min |
| May 30, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 34 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.