Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 607, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 7:09 PM EDT for Bibb County, Houston County, Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 61 min. 5 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 5, 1998, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1998, 8:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bibb County, GA, Houston County, GA, Peach County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Byron, GA | Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down in Byron and all along the Peach-Houston county line. Most of the county lost power. Dime to quarter size hail was also reported. |
| Jun 5, 7:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Perry, GA | |
| Jun 5, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Centerville, GA | Many trees were knocked down, some of them large. A citizen using hand-held equipment measured winds of 70 mph. |
| Jun 5, 7:30 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Byron, GA | |
| Jun 5, 7:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Macon, GA | More than 500 trees were felled by thunderstorm winds, some onto houses. Crews spent the entire night clearing the debris. Power outages affected about 40,000 homes and businesses. |
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 5, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
118 WUUS1 KATL 052310 RRA SVRATL GAC021-153-171-207-225-231-060010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 709 PM EDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA LAMAR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA PEACH COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 810 PM EDT * AT 707 PM EDT... A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR FROM 8 MILES WEST OF ZEBULON IN PIKE COUNTY TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF OLGETGHORPE IN MACON COUNTY...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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 8:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 22 min |
| Jun 4, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Newton | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Putnam | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 9:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Treutlen | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Toombs | 20 min |
| Jun 5, 7:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 8:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 8:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 8:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 9:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Webster | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley, Taylor | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Upson | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 6:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Twiggs | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Wilkinson | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 47 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.