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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 1, 1998Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 1998, 11:18 AM EST for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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: Apr 1, 1998, 11:18 AM EST (16:18 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 1998, 11:45 AM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Laurens County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

349 
WUUS1 KATL 011620 RRA
SVRATL
GAC175-011645-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1118 AM EST WED APR 1 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...LAURENS COUNTY
 
AT 1116 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF DEXTER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN
HOUR. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF DAMAGING WINDS.
 
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/GMB

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

Local storm report, Apr 1, 7:23 AM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
723 AM EST WED APR 1 1998

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

230 AM     3 S DOUGLASVILLE          GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
4/1/98     DOUGLAS                        REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC.

KDF

Local storm report, Apr 1, 7:23 AM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
723 AM EST WED APR 1 1998

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

230 AM     3 S DOUGLASVILLE          GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
4/1/98     DOUGLAS                        REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC.

KDF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 1:33 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Heard	42 min
Apr 1, 2:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	50 min
Apr 1, 3:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	52 min
Apr 1, 4:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	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.