Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 618, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 8:31 PM EDT for Barrow County, Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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 5, 1998, 8:31 PM EDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1998, 9:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barrow County, GA, Jackson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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.
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, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 307 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
- 172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
604 WUUS1 KATL 060032 SVRATL GAC013-157-060120- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 831 PM EDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARROW COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 920 PM EDT * AT 830 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 55 MILES NORTH OF TALMO MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. 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 DO NOT 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. BDL/DH
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 5, 3:56 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
356 PM EDT FRI JUN 5 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
830 AM VILLA RICA GA WIND DAMAGE
6/5/98 CARROLL 12 HOUSES AND OUTBUILDINGS
WITH MINOR TO MODERATE DAMAGE
SOME TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
830 AM COUNTYWIDE GA WIND DAMAGE
6/5/98 HARALSON 7 HOMES DAMAGED...3 MAJOR...
2 MODERATE...2 MINOR. VEHICLE
CRUSHED BY TREE. 10 ROADS
BLOCKED BY TREES.
830 AM DOUGLASVILLE GA WIND DAMAGE
6/5/98 DOUGLAS NWS SURVEY INDICATED APPROX
100 HOMES DAMAGED...MOSTLY
FROM NUMEROUS TREES FALLING.
OTHERWISE DAMAGE MAINLY TO
SHINGLES AND CHIMNEYS. WIND
DAMAGE PATTERN OF TREES ALL
LAYING TOWARD THE EAST
INDICATES STRAIGHT-LINE/
DOWNBURST WINDS.Local storm report, Jun 5, 3:56 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
356 PM EDT FRI JUN 5 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
830 AM VILLA RICA GA WIND DAMAGE
6/5/98 CARROLL 12 HOUSES AND OUTBUILDINGS
WITH MINOR TO MODERATE DAMAGE
SOME TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
830 AM COUNTYWIDE GA WIND DAMAGE
6/5/98 HARALSON 7 HOMES DAMAGED...3 MAJOR...
2 MODERATE...2 MINOR. VEHICLE
CRUSHED BY TREE. 10 ROADS
BLOCKED BY TREES.
830 AM DOUGLASVILLE GA WIND DAMAGE
6/5/98 DOUGLAS NWS SURVEY INDICATED APPROX
100 HOMES DAMAGED...MOSTLY
FROM NUMEROUS TREES FALLING.
OTHERWISE DAMAGE MAINLY TO
SHINGLES AND CHIMNEYS. WIND
DAMAGE PATTERN OF TREES ALL
LAYING TOWARD THE EAST
INDICATES STRAIGHT-LINE/
DOWNBURST WINDS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.