Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 676, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 5:01 PM EDT for Bibb County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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 16, 1998, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 5:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bibb County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:02 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Macon, GA | Several public reports were received of dime to quarter 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 16, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 162101 RRA SVRATL GAC021-162150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 501 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 550 PM EDT * AT 459 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 9 MILES WEST OF MACON MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... MACON AROUND 515 PM EDT WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...LIGHTNING POSES A SERIOUS DANGER. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. IF BOATING OR SWIMMING...GET TO LAND QUICKLY AND FIND SHELTER. IF IN THE OPEN FIND A LOW SPOT AWAY FROM TREES...FENCES...AND POLES. 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. MPM/VM/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 20 minutes 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, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Spalding | 33 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
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.