Severe Thunderstorm Warning 678, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

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

Expired

Jun 16, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA, Upson County, GA

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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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GAC199-231-293-162210-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  UPSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 610 PM EDT

* AT 520 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSE HILL MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   ROSE HILL                   AROUND 525 PM EDT
   MEANSVILLE                  AROUND 530 PM EDT



DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE
AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BOATERS...GOLFERS...
AND OTHERS INVOLVED IN OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER:
IMMEDIATELY. 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.


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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.