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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 761, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 25, 1998Marion County, Webster County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1998, 3:15 PM EDT for Marion County, Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 25, 1998, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1998, 3:50 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Marion County, GA, Webster County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 3:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Buena Vista, GA	Marion county 911 reported trees were knocked down.
Jun 25, 4:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Doyle, GA

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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 1921 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -37 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 251915 RRA
SVRATL
GAC197-307-251950-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
315 PM EDT THU JUN 25 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MARION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 350 PM EDT

* AT 314 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR  12 MILES SOUTH OF BUENA VISTA MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
   DRANEVILLE                  AROUND 335 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.

WRS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	White	34 min
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, 3:34 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.