Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 790, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1998, 3:11 PM EDT for Butts 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
- Jul 3, 1998, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1998, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butts County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson, GA | Butts county 911 reported trees were blown down. |
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 900 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 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 031911 RRA SVRATL GAC035-031945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 311 PM EDT FRI JUL 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUTTS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 309 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES WEST OF JACKSON MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. LOCUST GROVE FIRE STATION IN HENRY COUNTY REPORTED GUSTS AROUND 40 MILES PER HOUR WITH THIS STORM. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... JACKSON AROUND 320 PM EDT FINCHERVILLE AROUND 325 PM EDT WORTHVILLE AROUND 330 PM EDT INDIAN SPRINGS AROUND 330 PM EDT FLOVILLA 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 ST RUCTURES 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, Jul 3, 11:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-032100- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1115 AM EDT FRI JUL 3 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP EASILY OVER GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON BECAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. AS AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY MOVES TOWARD GEORGIA... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY 3 PM. ISOLATED STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY DUE TO THE EXPECTED ISOLATED NATUpRE OF ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WRS
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 11:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-032100- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1115 AM EDT FRI JUL 3 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP EASILY OVER GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON BECAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. AS AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY MOVES TOWARD GEORGIA... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY 3 PM. ISOLATED STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY DUE TO THE EXPECTED ISOLATED NATUpRE OF ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WRS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.