Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 820, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1998, 7:58 PM EDT for Chattooga County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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 19, 1998, 7:58 PM EDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1998, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chattooga County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 8:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, GA | The Chattooga county sheriff's office reported trees and power lines were knocked down county-wide. |
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Wilcox | 33 min |
| Jul 19, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 34 min |
| Jul 19, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 32 min |
| Jul 19, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 37 min |
| Jul 19, 7:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 37 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.