Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 940, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1998, 5:28 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1998, 5:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Emanuel County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 223 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.
216 WUUS1 KATL 182129 RRA SVRATL GAC107-182150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 528 PM EDT TUE AUG 18 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN EMANUEL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 550 PM EDT * AT 528 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES SOUTH OF SWAINSBORO MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. 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. 15/PAH
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, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 33 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, 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.