Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 570, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1998, 5:59 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 4, 1998, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1998, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gwinnett County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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, 6:05 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Duluth, GA |
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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 79 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.
955 WUUS1 KATL 042200 RRA SVRATL GAC135-042230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 559 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 557 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 8 MILES WEST OF LAWRENCEVILLE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... SNELLVILLE AROUND 605 PM EDT LAWRENCEVILLE AROUND 605 PM EDT GRAYSON AROUND 610 PM EDT DACULA AROUND 615 PM EDT 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 57 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 57 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, 5:15 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.