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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 722, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 19, 1998Monroe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 1:43 PM EDT for Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 1998, 1:43 PM EDT (17:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1998, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Monroe County, GA

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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 67 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.

215 
WUUS1 KATL 191744 RRA
SVRATL
GAC207-191815-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 215 PM EDT

* AT 142 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  6 MILES WEST OF BLOUNT MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   BLOUNT                      AROUND 150 PM EDT
   BERNER                      AROUND 210 PM EDT
   JULIETTE                    AROUND 210 PM EDT
   PERCALE                     AROUND 210 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.

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 19, 10:42 AM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-192045-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1042 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THE REMAINDER OF
THIS MORNING...AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING ACROSS NORTH AND
CENTRAL GEORGIA.

A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS COMBINED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE WILL ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS IN TENNESSEE AND ALABAMA TO
BECOME POTENTIALLY SEVERE AS THEY MOVE INTO NORTH GEORGIA THIS
MORNING AND AFTERNOON...THEN INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER
DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON OR
EVENING.

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 10:42 AM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-192045-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1042 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THE REMAINDER OF
THIS MORNING...AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING ACROSS NORTH AND
CENTRAL GEORGIA.

A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS COMBINED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE WILL ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS IN TENNESSEE AND ALABAMA TO
BECOME POTENTIALLY SEVERE AS THEY MOVE INTO NORTH GEORGIA THIS
MORNING AND AFTERNOON...THEN INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER
DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON OR
EVENING.

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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, 12:24 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, 1:48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.