Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 910, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1998, 7:13 PM EDT for Coweta County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1998, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coweta County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 24 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.
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WUUS1 KATL 312315 RRA
SVRATL
GAC077-312345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
713 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
COWETA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
* UNTIL 745 PM EDT
* AT 711 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF NEWNAN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
SHARPSBURG AROUND 730 PM
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.
15/WRSThe 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, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Webster | 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, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.