Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 915, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1998, 8:53 PM EDT for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1998, 8:53 PM EDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1998, 9:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 9:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Carrollton, GA | Carroll county 911 reported numerous trees down, some falling on a house. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1698 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 090052 SVRATL GAC045-090125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 853 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 925 PM EDT * AT 852 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES WEST OF VILLA RICA MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... VILLA RICA AROUND 900 PM EDT 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 tOR LARGER...PLEASE REPORT IT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING 770-486-8535. DH/MR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 51 min |
| Aug 8, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.