Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 568, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1998, 5:15 PM EDT for Towns County, White County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1998, 5:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Towns County, GA, White 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.
659 WUUS1 KATL 042116 RRA SVRATL GAC281-311-042150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 515 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 550 PM EDT * AT 514 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES SOUTH OF PRESLEY MOVING EAST AT 55 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.
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, Jun 4, 3:02 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
302 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
205 PM DANIELSVILLE GA WIND DAMAGE
6/4/98 MADISON POWER LINES DOWN
215 PM HOMER GA WIND DAMAGE
6/4/98 BANKS TREES REPORTED DOWN ACROSS
ROADS
240 PM 5N CHATSWORTH GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
6/4/98 MURRAY
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 4, 3:02 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
302 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
205 PM DANIELSVILLE GA WIND DAMAGE
6/4/98 MADISON POWER LINES DOWN
215 PM HOMER GA WIND DAMAGE
6/4/98 BANKS TREES REPORTED DOWN ACROSS
ROADS
240 PM 5N CHATSWORTH GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
6/4/98 MURRAY
ENDThe 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, 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, 5:33 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
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.