Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 1:38 PM EST for Hancock County, Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 1:38 PM EST (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, GA, Putnam 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 11:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
176 WUUS1 KATL 031840 RRA SVRATL GAC141-237-031930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 138 PM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 137 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPARTA TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EATONTON. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 60 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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, Apr 3, 7:40 AM EST, 5 hours 58 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-031345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 740 AM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF ALABAMA UNTIL 2 PM EST...HOWEVER THIS WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY PART OF GEORGIA AT THIS TIME. KM
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 8:43 AM EST, 4 hours 55 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-031345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 740 AM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THE STORM PREDICTIOrN CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF ALABAMA UNTIL 2 PM EST...HOWEVER THIS WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY PART OF GEORGIA AT THIS TIME. KM
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 10:50 AM EST, 2 hours 48 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-031615- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1050 AM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THROUGH THE MACON AREA. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM MACON TO ALONG A LINE FROM ALBANY TO ALMA TO SAVANNAH. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF ALABAMA UNTIL 2 PM EST TODAY. THIS WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY PART OF GEORGIA AT THIS TIME. WARM AND MOIST AIR SPREADING OVER THE AREAS THIS MORNING WILL BRING CONSIDERABLE INSTABILITY TO THE AREA. ADDITIONAL INSTABILITY WILL OCCUR LATER TODAY AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO NORTHWEST GEORGIA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUS THE POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL THROUGH THE DAYLIGHT HOURS TODAY AND INTO THIS EVENING. STORM SPOTERS AND EMERGENCY PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT TODAY IN CASE ACTIVATION BECOMES NECESSARY. END/BDG
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 10:50 AM EST, 2 hours 48 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-031615- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1050 AM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THROUGH THE MACON AREA. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM MACON TO ALONG A LINE FROM ALBANY TO ALMA TO SAVANNAH. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF ALABAMA UNTIL 2 PM EST TODAY. THIS WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY PART OF GEORGIA AT THIS TIME. WARM AND MOIST AIR SPREADING OVER THE AREAS THIS MORNING WILL BRING CONSIDERABLE INSTABILITY TO THE AREA. ADDITIONAL INSTABILITY WILL OCCUR LATER TODAY AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO NORTHWEST GEORGIA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUS THE POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL THROUGH THE DAYLIGHT HOURS TODAY AND INTO THIS EVENING. STORM SPOTERS AND EMERGENCY PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT TODAY IN CASE ACTIVATION BECOMES NECESSARY. END/BDG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 9:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 17 min |
| Apr 3, 9:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 9:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 30 min |
| Apr 3, 10:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington, Wilkinson | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 10:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 10:38 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson | 22 min |
| Apr 3, 10:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 20 min |
| Apr 3, 1:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 2:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Washington | 54 min |
| Apr 3, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 2:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Washington | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 3:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 3:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 3:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 4:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 4:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Webster | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 4:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 4:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 4:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 4:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 4:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 4:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley, Sumter | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 4:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 5:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 5:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 5:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 5:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 6:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 6:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 18 min |
| Apr 3, 6:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Fulton | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 6:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 6:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 49 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.