Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 629, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1998, 8:10 PM EDT for Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 min. 2 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 9, 1998, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1998, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Paulding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dallas, GA | The public reported several trees were blown down. Also, an aluminum building was blown over. |
| Jun 9, 8:47 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Dallas, GA | The public reported dime to nickel size hail. |
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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
952 WUUS1 KATL 100012 RRA SVRATL GAC223-100100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 810 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PAULDING COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 809 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRASWELL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... BRASWELL AROUND 820 PM EDT YORKVILLE AROUND 825 PM EDT DALLAS AROUND 840 PM EDT NEW HOPE AROUND 840 PM EDT 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. KDF/TSM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 32 min |
| Jun 10, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 31 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.