Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 902, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1998, 4:09 PM EDT for Webster 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 31, 1998, 4:09 PM EDT (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1998, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Webster County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1204 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
265 WUUS1 KATL 312010 RRA SVRATL GAC307-312045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 409 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEBSTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 408 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRESTON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... PRESTON AROUND 420 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. WRS/NM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 36 min |
| Jul 31, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 36 min |
| Jul 31, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs, Treutlen | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 31 min |
| Jul 31, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 32 min |
| Jul 31, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 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.