Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 930, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1998, 3:27 PM EDT for Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 18, 1998, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1998, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
441 WUUS1 KATL 181928 RRA SVRATL GAC237-182000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 327 PM EDT TUE AUG 18 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 326 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 9 MILES WEST OF EATONTON MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... STANFORDVILLE AROUND 400 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 OR LARGER...PLEASE REPORT IT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING 770-486-8535.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 32 min |
| Aug 18, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 32 min |
| Aug 18, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Peach | 20 min |
| Aug 18, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 4:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Greene | 90 min |
| Aug 18, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 22 min |
| Aug 18, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wilcox | 35 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.