Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 739, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 3:07 PM EDT for Talbot County, Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 3:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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.
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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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.
643 WUUS1 KATL 191908 RRA SVRATL GAC263-269-191955- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 307 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TAYLOR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 355 PM EDT * AT 307 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATTSBURG MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... PRATTSBURG AROUND 315 PM EDT WESLEY AROUND 320 PM EDT CARSONVILLE AROUND 325 PM EDT BUTLER AROUND 335 PM EDT REYNOLDS AROUND 355 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.
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, 1:43 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, 3:11 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.