Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 870, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1998, 3:24 PM EDT for Hall County, Lumpkin 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 22, 1998, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1998, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hall County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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 131 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.
168 WUUS1 KATL 221925 RRA SVRATL GAC139-187-222000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 324 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HALL COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA LUMPKIN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 323 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DAHLONEGA MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... GARLAND AROUND 340 PM EDT DAHLONEGA AROUND 345 PM EDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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. MS/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 49 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, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 31 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.