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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1998, 10:24 PM EST for Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 10:24 PM EST (03:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, GA
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, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 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
- 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.
251 WFUS1 KATL 040325 RRA TORATL GAC237-040400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1024 PM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 1023 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST WEST OF EATONTON IN PUTNAM COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 50 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.
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, 7:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Spalding | 36 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, 10:32 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 |
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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.