Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 710, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 12:24 PM EDT for Carroll County, Douglas County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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, 12:24 PM EDT (16:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 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, 12:41 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Fairburn, GA | A few public reports indicated dime to quarter size hail fell across southern Fulton county. |
| Jun 19, 12:42 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta, GA | Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down at Lennox Square in the Buckhead area. |
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 19, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
873 WUUS1 KATL 191625 RRA SVRATL GAC045-097-121-191700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1224 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA DOUGLAS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 100 PM EDT * AT 1223 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 9 MILES SOUTH OF VILLA RICA MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... CHAPEL HILL AROUND 1245 PM EDT PALMETTO AROUND 1250 PM EDT FAIRBURN AROUND 100 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.
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, 10:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 34 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, 12:33 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.