Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 632, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1998, 9:17 PM EDT for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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 9, 1998, 9:17 PM EDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1998, 10:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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.
356 WUUS1 KATL 100119 RRA SVRATL GAC045-100205- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 917 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 1005 PM EDT * AT 917 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLEM MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... CLEM AROUND 945 PM EDT WHITESBURG AROUND 950 PM EDT LOWELL AROUND 955 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, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 50 min |
| 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, 9:21 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
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.