Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 100, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 6:05 PM EDT for Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Sep 29, 1998, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 6:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumter County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 6:10 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Andersonville, GA | A newspaper report indicated another brief touchdown by an apparent tornado took out a pecan grove on Georgia highway 49 near Andersonville. This would probably have been from the same storm that had hit near DeSoto about 35 minutes earlier. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
912
WFUS1 KATL 292206 RRA
TORATL
GAC261-292240-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
605 PM EDT TUE SEP 29 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 640 PM EDT
* AT 604 PM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 6
MILES EAST OF AMERICUS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
ANDERSONVILLE AROUND 620 PM EDT
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS
A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS. USE
BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. IF YOU
EXPERIENCE STORM DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES OR TREES...OR HAIL THE
SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER...PLEASE REPORT IT BY CALLING THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE AT 770-486-8535.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley | 31 min |
| Sep 29, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson | 35 min |
| Sep 29, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 35 min |
| Sep 29, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 34 min |
| Sep 29, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Macon, Taylor | 34 min |
| Sep 29, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 34 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.