Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 641, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 6:04 PM EDT for Newton County, Rockdale County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 6:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Newton County, GA, Rockdale County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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, 6:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Conyers, GA | A HAM radio operator and a public report indicated 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 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 58 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.
075 WUUS1 KATL 102206 RRA SVRATL GAC217-247-102235- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 604 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA ROCKDALE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 635 PM EDT * AT 601 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONYERS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... CONYERS AROUND 610 PM EDT MILSTEAD AROUND 610 PM EDT MAGNET AROUND 615 PM EDT ALMON AROUND 625 PM EDT 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. TSM/MSS/JRN
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, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 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.