Severe Thunderstorm Warning 677, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

Jun 16, 1998, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)

Expired

Jun 16, 1998, 6:00 PM EDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, GA, Heard County, GA

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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WUUS1 KATL 162112 RRA
SVRATL
GAC045-149-162200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
513 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
  HEARD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 512 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TYUS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   TYUS                        AROUND 520 PM EDT
   CENTRALHATCHEE              AROUND 525 PM EDT
   ROOPVILLE                   AROUND 525 PM EDT
   CARROLLTON                  AROUND 540 PM EDT
   VILLA RICA                  AROUND 600 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/VM/NM

In the hours 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.

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.