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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 887, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 28, 1998Bleckley County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1998, 7:39 PM EDT for Bleckley County, Georgia. It was in force for 21 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 28, 1998, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
21 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Bleckley County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1998-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 997 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1998-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
997 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

302 
WUUS1 KATL 282340 RRA
SVRATL
GAC023-290000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
739 PM EDT TUE JUL 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BLECKLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 737 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR 5 MILES EAST OF COCHRAN MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

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.

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.

WRS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Telfair32 min
Jul 28, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilcox19 min
Jul 28, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade33 min
Jul 28, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWalker32 min
Jul 28, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley18 min
Jul 28, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge33 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.