Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 7, 1998, 5:36 PM EST for Jasper County, Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Jan 7, 1998, 5:36 PM EST (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 1998, 6:10 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, GA, Jones 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 072236 RRA SVRATL GAC159-169-072310- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 536 PM EST WED JAN 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR JASPER COUNTY - NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA JONES COUNTY - CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 610 PM EST * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... HILLSBORO AROUND 535 PM EST ADGATEVILLE AROUND 535 PM EST MONTICELLO AROUND 540 PM EST FARRAR AROUND 550 PM EST * AT 534 PM EST... 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROUND OAK... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING NORTH 60 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.
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, Jan 7, 2:30 PM EST, 3 hours 6 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-080400- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 330 PM EDT WED JAN 07 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD EAST FROM ALABAMA INTO GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 3:30 PM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-080400- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 330 PM EDT WED JAN 07 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD EAST FROM ALABAMA INTO GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOMEL OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
Local storm report, Jan 7, 4:06 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
406 PM EST WED JAN 7 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
740 PM GREENSBORO GA WIND DAMAGE
1/7/98 GREENE 740-745 PM EST GREENE COUNTY
911 REPORTS STRUCTURAL DAMAGE
TO A FEW BUILDINGS. TREES
WERE KNOCKED DOWN. A FEW
WINDOWS WERE BLOWN OUT IN THE
911 CENTER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 3:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 33 min |
| Jan 7, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 31 min |
| Jan 7, 3:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 32 min |
| Jan 7, 4:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 32 min |
| Jan 7, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 30 min |
| Jan 7, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 33 min |
| Jan 7, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Putnam | 30 min |
| Jan 7, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 30 min |
| Jan 7, 6:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 27 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.