Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 798, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1998, 3:24 PM EDT for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 8, 1998, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1998, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1158 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
846 WUUS1 KATL 081925 RRA SVRATL GAC121-082000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 324 PM EDT WED JUL 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 322 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES NORTH OF PALMETTO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... PALMETTO AROUND 330 PM EDT FAIRBURN AROUND 335 PM EDT UNION CITY AROUND 340 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Oconee | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 37 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.