Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 869, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1998, 3:14 PM EDT for Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 22, 1998, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1998, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
084 WUUS1 KATL 221915 RRA SVRATL GAC157-221945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 314 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 310 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF JEFFERSON MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... TALMO AROUND 340 PM EDT DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BOATERS...GOLFERS... AND OTHERS INVOLVED IN OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. 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. VW/JB
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 22, 12:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-222000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1235 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1998 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. AN AREA OF LOW SURFACE PRESSURE OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE WILL CAUSE SOMEWHAT MORE THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE NORTH...INCLUDING THE ATLANTA AND ATHENS AREAS. ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS. EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CLOSELY THIS AFTERNOON. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WRS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin | 36 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.