Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 801, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1998, 3:49 PM EDT for Barrow County, Clarke County, Oconee County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1998, 4:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barrow County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Oconee County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.
969 WUUS1 KATL 081950 RRA SVRATL GAC013-059-219-082040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 349 PM EDT WED JUL 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARROW COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA CLARKE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA OCONEE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 440 PM EDT * AT 347 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF WATKINSVILLE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... BOGART AROUND 400 PM EDT EASTVILLE AROUND 415 PM EDT ATHENS AROUND 420 PM EDT WATKINSVILLE AROUND 425 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, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 36 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, 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.