Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 808, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1998, 5:35 PM EDT for Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 16, 1998, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 1311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 162135 RRA SVRATL GAC237-162210- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 535 PM EDT THU JUL 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 610 PM EDT * AT 534 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 8 MILES SOUTH OF EATONTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... FLAT ROCK AROUND 545 PM EDT WARFIELD AROUND 545 PM EDT EATONTON AROUND 550 PM EDT ROCK EAGLE 4-H CENTER AROUND 605 PM EDT PHOENIX AROUND 605 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. 16
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 16, 11:40 AM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-162000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1140 AM EDT THU JUL 16 1998 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE DURING THE AFTERNOON...DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST GEORGIA AHEAD OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND SPREADING EASTWARD. ALTHOUGH NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA ARE NOT UNDER A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...WE CANNOT RULE OUT ISOLATED DAMAGING WINDS WITH A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PEOPLE IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER C ONDITIONS...BUT SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. WRS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 34 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.