Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 789, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1998, 10:26 PM EDT for Bartow County, Cherokee County, Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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 30, 1998, 10:26 PM EDT (02:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1998, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bartow County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Gordon County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 010226 RRA SVRATL GAC015-057-129-010300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1026 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT * AT 1025 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANTON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... WALESKA AROUND 1040 PM EDT CHEROKEE AROUND 1050 PM EDT CANTON AROUND 1050 PM EDT BALL GROUND AROUND 1055 PM EDT HOLLY SPRINGS AROUND 1055 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 DAMAG E 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. 17
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 35 min |
| Jun 30, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 36 min |
| Jun 30, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 34 min |
| Jun 30, 8:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 33 min |
| Jun 30, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 36 min |
| Jun 30, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 34 min |
| Jun 30, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 36 min |
| Jun 30, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.