Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 7, 1998, 6:15 PM EST for Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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
- Jan 7, 1998, 6:15 PM EST (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 1998, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jones County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 072315 RRA SVRATL GAC169-072345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 615 PM EST WED JAN 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR JONES COUNTY - CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 645 PM EST * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... ROUND OAK AROUND 625 PM EST BLOUNTSVILLE AROUND 630 PM EST * AT 613 PM EST... 5 MILES SOUTH OF ROUND OAK... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING NORTHEAST 60 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT IN OR NEAR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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 7b70-486-8535.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 3:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 33 min |
| Jan 7, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 31 min |
| Jan 7, 3:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 32 min |
| Jan 7, 4:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 32 min |
| Jan 7, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 30 min |
| Jan 7, 5:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones | 34 min |
| Jan 7, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 33 min |
| Jan 7, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Putnam | 30 min |
| Jan 7, 6:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 27 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.