Severe Thunderstorm Warning 665, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

Jun 16, 1998, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)

Expired

Jun 16, 1998, 3:45 PM EDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Whole counties

County Heard County, GA

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

In the hours before

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NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1241 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA.

A WEAK COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM EASTERN TENESSEE INTO NORTHERN
ALABAMA COMBINED WITH AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER GEORGIA WILL CONTINUE
TO AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE STATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH
THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER
DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON OR
EVENING.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.