Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 557, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1998, 2:33 PM EDT for Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 4, 1998, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1998, 3:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilkes County, GA
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, 6.6 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
- 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.
679 WUUS1 KATL 041834 RRA SVRATL GAC317-041905- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 233 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WILKES COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 305 PM EDT * AT 232 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES EAST OF NORMAN MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT IN OR NEAR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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. 17/50
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 43 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, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 35 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.