Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 675, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 4:42 PM EDT for Coweta County, Fayette County, Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 16, 1998, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coweta County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Spalding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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.
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 16, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 3 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 162042 RRA SVRATL GAC077-113-255-162115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 442 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COWETA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA FAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA SPALDING COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 441 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES WEST OF ZETELLA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... ZETELLA AROUND 450 PM EDT RIO AROUND 450 PM EDT BIRDIE AROUND 450 PM EDT SUNNY SIDE AROUND 455 PM EDT GRIFFIN AROUND 500 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. MSS/SBL/NM
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 16, 12:41 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-162300- 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.
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, 12:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry, Spalding | 48 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.