Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 555, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1998, 2:15 PM EDT for Bartow County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 4, 1998, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1998, 2:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bartow County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | White, GA | |
| Jun 4, 2:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cartersville, GA | Bartow county 911 reported several trees were blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
587 WUUS1 KATL 041816 RRA SVRATL GAC015-041850- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 215 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 250 PM EDT * AT 214 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF CARTERSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. 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. WRS
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, Jun 4, 10:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
GAZ085>091-098>103-113-041600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1050 AM EDT THU JUN 4 1998 ... HEAT ADVISORY FOR SOUTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON... A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THAT PORTION OF GEORGIA ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PLAINS IN SUMTER COUNTY TO DUBLIN IN LAURENS TO SYLVANIA IN SCREVEN COUNTY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE OVER THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON... BRINGING HOT TEMPERATURES TO PORTIONS OF SOUTH GEORGIA. AFTERNOON HIGHS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE MID AND UPPER 90S...PRODUCING HEAT INDICES IN THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE. THE HEAT INDEX IS A MEASURE OF HOW HOT IT FEELS WHEN THE EFFECTS OF HEAT ARE COMBINED WITH HUMIDITY. A HEAT INDEX OF 105 DEGREES IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE LEVEL WHERE PEOPLE BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE EXTREME DISCOMFORT OR STRESS. PEOPLE WORKING OUTDOORS... THOSE LIVING IN PLACES WITH LITTLE VENTILATION... AND THOSE IN POOR HEALTH SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS AS PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO THESE CONDITIONS MAY LEAD TO HEAT EXHAUSTION OR POSSIBLE HEAT STROKE. DRINK PLENTY OF NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. WEAR LIGHT-WEIGHT... LIGHT- COLORED... LOOSE-FITTING CLOTHING. WEAR A HAT TO SHIELD YOURSELF FROM THE SUN... AND USE A SUNSCREEN TO REDUCE POSSIBLE SUNBURN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 26 min |
| Jun 4, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 2:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 4:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Polk | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, White | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Oconee | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 7:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll | 19 min |
| Jun 4, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.