Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 640, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 3:57 PM EDT for Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 10, 1998, 3:57 PM EDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pickens County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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 10, 4:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tate, GA | Pickens county 911 reported several trees 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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
- 1817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
144 WUUS1 KATL 101959 RRA SVRATL GAC085-187-227-102030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 357 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA LUMPKIN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT AT 353 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM LUDVILLE TO AMICALOLA FALLS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A FEW LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE JASPER...DAWSONVILLE AND DAHLONEGA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT IN OR NEAR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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. MSS/TSM
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, Jun 10, 11:06 AM EDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-074>076-085-086- 102100- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1106 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF NORTH AND EASTERN GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE RISK AREA IS GENERALLY NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM FRANKLIN IN HEARD COUNTY... TO EATONTON IN PUTNAM COUNTY...TO SWAINSBORO IN EMANUEL COUNTY. THIS AREA INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ROME...BLAIRSVILLE...ATLANTA...ATHENS... AND SWAINSBORO. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY WILL PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. A FEW OF THESE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES MAY MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. THERE IS A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER MOST OF GEORGIA. WEATHER SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS THAT MAY BE ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. 66
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 11:06 AM EDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-074>076-085-086- 102100- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1106 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF NORTH AND EASTERN GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE RISK AREA IS GENERALLY NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM FRANKLIN IN HEARD COUNTY... TO EATONTON IN PUTNAM COUNTY...TO SWAINSBORO IN EMANUEL COUNTY. THIS AREA INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ROME...BLAIRSVILLE...ATLANTA...ATHENS... AND SWAINSBORO. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY WILL PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. A FEW OF THESE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES MAY MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. THERE IS A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER MOST OF GEORGIA. WEATHER SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS THAT MAY BE ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. 66
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, 9:17 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.