Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 648, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 12:42 AM EDT for Clayton County, Henry County, Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min. 5 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 16, 1998, 12:42 AM EDT (04:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clayton County, GA, Henry County, GA, Spalding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:41 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 16, 12:45 AM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Jonesboro, GA | The public reported golf ball size hail. |
| Jun 16, 12:45 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Jonesboro, GA | An off-duty NWS employee reported 2 trees were blown down. |
| Jun 16, 12:50 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Stockbridge, GA | |
| Jun 16, 12:51 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffin, GA | The squall line moved through Spalding county downing numerous trees and large limbs in Griffin. A large oak tree fell on 1 home destroying it. Other houses and vehicles were damaged by falling trees and limbs. Power outages resulted to 80 percent of Griffin E |
| Jun 16, 12:52 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Donough, GA | The public reported aluminum siding was torn off a house in Hampton and several trees and tree limbs were knocked down in McDonough and Stockbridge. |
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 15, 11:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 22 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
- 966 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 160442 RRA SVRATL GAC063-151-255-160530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1242 AM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAYTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA HENRY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA SPALDING COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 130 AM EDT * AT 1241 AM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOWALAGA MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... MORROW AROUND 1245 AM EDT TOWALAGA AROUND 1245 AM EDT LUELLA AROUND 1250 AM EDT STOCKBRIDGE AROUND 1250 AM EDT MCDONOUGH AROUND 1255 AM EDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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. BDL/MSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 11:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 12:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 12:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 12:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 12:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Newton, Rockdale | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 1:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 1:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 1:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 1:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 1:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Walton | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 1:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 1:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 1:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 1:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Oconee | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 1:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 1:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 2:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Jackson | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 2:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 2:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Spalding | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oglethorpe | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Wilkinson | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 48 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.