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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 700, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 19, 1998Bartow County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 10:31 AM EDT for Bartow County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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 19, 1998, 10:31 AM EDT (14:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1998, 11:05 AM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Bartow County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:32 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 19, 11:00 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Cartersville, GA
Jun 19, 11:10 AM EDT	Hail 1	Cartersville, GA	The public reported 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1794 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

139 
WUUS1 KATL 191432 RRA
SVRATL
GAC015-191505-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1031 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1105 AM EDT

* AT 1028 AM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ADAIRSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   FOLSOM                      AROUND 1035 AM EDT
   WHITE                       AROUND 1050 AM EDT
   PINE LOG                    AROUND 1055 AM EDT
   FUNKHOUSER                  AROUND 1100 AM EDT


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.

WRS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 9:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	34 min
Jun 19, 9:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon	33 min
Jun 19, 10:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pickens	34 min
Jun 19, 11:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	33 min
Jun 19, 11:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	33 min
Jun 19, 11:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	31 min
Jun 19, 11:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton	33 min
Jun 19, 11:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Paulding	33 min
Jun 19, 11:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	35 min
Jun 19, 11:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	34 min
Jun 19, 12:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	32 min
Jun 19, 12:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas, Fulton	36 min
Jun 19, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	32 min
Jun 19, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	32 min
Jun 19, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	34 min
Jun 19, 12:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	34 min
Jun 19, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette	31 min
Jun 19, 12:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	35 min
Jun 19, 12:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	36 min
Jun 19, 1:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale	49 min
Jun 19, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	32 min
Jun 19, 1:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Lamar, Spalding	36 min
Jun 19, 1:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	33 min
Jun 19, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	32 min
Jun 19, 1:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Putnam	32 min
Jun 19, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	35 min
Jun 19, 1:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	48 min
Jun 19, 2:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Pike	33 min
Jun 19, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	36 min
Jun 19, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Taliaferro	47 min
Jun 19, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	34 min
Jun 19, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones	35 min
Jun 19, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Monroe, Taylor	48 min
Jun 19, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot	48 min
Jun 19, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Warren	47 min
Jun 19, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	47 min
Jun 19, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	33 min
Jun 19, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	36 min
Jun 19, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	47 min
Jun 19, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Peach	35 min
Jun 19, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot, Taylor	48 min
Jun 19, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford	34 min
Jun 19, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski	64 min
Jun 19, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson	64 min
Jun 19, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	35 min
Jun 19, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Upson	50 min
Jun 19, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Taylor	49 min
Jun 19, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Schley	35 min
Jun 19, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	67 min
Jun 19, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen	62 min
Jun 19, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley, Sumter	48 min
Jun 19, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Webster	48 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.