Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1998, 7:39 PM EST for Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 7:39 PM EST (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 8:15 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spalding County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:41 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Griffin, GA | |
| Apr 3, 7:52 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Griffin, GA | The Spalding county EMA reported 30 homes suffered minor to heavy damage. One on North Walkers Mill Road was completely destroyed. In the Amelia Road area, homes sustained moderate damage with one shifted off its foundation. Light to moderate damage was in the |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 2522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 151 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 676 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 34.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
389 WFUS1 KATL 040040 RRA TORATL GAC255-040115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 739 PM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SPALDING COUNTY AT 738 PM EST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A TORNADO NEAR BROOKS IN FAYETTE COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Hall | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 7:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 7:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 7:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 7:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 7:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 7:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 7:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 7:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 8:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 8:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 8:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 8:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 8:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 8:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 8:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 8:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 8:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 9:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 9:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 9:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Upson | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 9:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 9:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 9:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 9:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe, Upson | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 9:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 10:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 10:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Upson | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 10:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Putnam | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 10:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 10:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 10:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 10:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 11:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 11:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens | 48 min |
| Apr 4, 12:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Treutlen | 27 min |
| Apr 4, 12:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 26 min |
| Apr 4, 12:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 26 min |
| Apr 4, 12:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Treutlen | 39 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.