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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 622, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 9, 1998Towns County, Union County, White County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1998, 3:26 PM EDT for Towns County, Union County, White County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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 9, 1998, 3:26 PM EDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1998, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, White County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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 9, 3:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Blairsville, GA	The Union county 911 office reported 2 trees were blown down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

345 
WUUS1 KATL 091927 RRA
SVRATL
GAC281-291-311-092015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
326 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA
  UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA
  WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 323 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  10 MILES NORTHWEST OF UNICOI SP MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   ROBERTSTOWN                 AROUND 340 PM EDT
   UNICOI SP                   AROUND 340 PM EDT
   HELEN                       AROUND 340 PM EDT
   NACOOCHEE                   AROUND 345 PM EDT
   SAUTEE                      AROUND 345 PM EDT



WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...LIGHTNING POSES A SERIOUS
DANGER. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. IF BOATING OR
SWIMMING...GET TO LAND QUICKLY AND FIND SHELTER. IF IN THE OPEN
FIND A LOW SPOT AWAY FROM TREES...FENCES...AND POLES. 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 9, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jackson, Madison	45 min
Jun 9, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe	47 min
Jun 9, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	47 min
Jun 9, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	48 min
Jun 9, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	35 min
Jun 9, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Warren	33 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.