Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 879, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1998, 4:14 PM EDT for Wheeler 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 27, 1998, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1998, 4:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wheeler County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
303 WUUS1 KATL 272015 RRA SVRATL GAC309-272050- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 414 PM EDT MON JUL 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WHEELER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 450 PM EDT * AT 413 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALAMO MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. 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.
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 27, 11:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-280000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1145 AM EDT MON JUL 27 1998 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA ARE NOT EXPECTING WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER TODAY...ISOLATED HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS THAT DEVELOP AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS. MSS
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 11:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-280000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1145 AM EDT MON JUL 27 1998 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA ARE NOT EXPECTING WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER TODAY...ISOLATED HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS THAT DEVELOP AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS. MSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.