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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 756, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 24, 1998White County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 8:11 PM EDT for White County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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 24, 1998, 8:11 PM EDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1998, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County White County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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 24, 8:25 PM EDT	Hail 1	Helen, GA	Several reports from White county 911, a spotter and the public indicated dime to quarter size hail fell across the county.

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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 2494 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 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.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 250011 RRA
SVRATL
GAC311-250045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
811 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 811 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  3 MILES WEST OF CLEVELAND MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.




SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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 24, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin	35 min
Jun 24, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	51 min
Jun 24, 10:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Oglethorpe	35 min
Jun 25, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp	32 min
Jun 25, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Webster	35 min
Jun 25, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley, Sumter	31 min
Jun 25, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	30 min
Jun 25, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley, Sumter	34 min
Jun 25, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	32 min
Jun 25, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	47 min
Jun 25, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	35 min
Jun 25, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Fulton	34 min
Jun 25, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Douglas, Paulding	32 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.