Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 43, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 11:20 PM EDT for Catoosa County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 16, 1998, 11:20 PM EDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 11:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Catoosa County, GA, Walker County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 11:20 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Flintstone, GA | Police and fire officials reported a tornado. It apparently touched down briefly destroying 3 trailers, 2 barns and a car. The roof was torn off of a house. Trees and power lines were downed. The intensity, width and length were estimated. |
| Apr 16, 11:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Keith, GA | The sheriff's department reported roof damage to a house and numerous trees down in the community of Keith, about 4 miles east of Ringold. |
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 16, 10:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS1 KATL 170322 RRA
TORATL
GAC047-295-170355-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1120 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CATOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1155 PM EDT
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
CHICKAMAUGA NAT BATTLEFIELD AROUND 1120 PM EDT
FORT OGLETHORPE AROUND 1120 PM EDT
BOYNTON AROUND 1125 PM EDT
GRAYSVILLE AROUND 1125 PM EDT
RINGGOLD AROUND 1125 PM EDT
KEITH AROUND 1130 PM EDT
* AT 1110 PM EDT... 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHICKAMAUGA... A TORNADO
WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST 55 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 16, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 11:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 11:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 18 min |
| Apr 17, 12:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 12:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 12:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 1:04 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 51 min |
| Apr 17, 1:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 46 min |
| Apr 17, 1:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 1:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 2:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, White | 48 min |
| Apr 17, 3:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 3:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 7:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 35 min |
| Apr 17, 7:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 7:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley | 21 min |
| Apr 17, 8:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 35 min |
| Apr 17, 8:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Twiggs | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 8:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Marion, Schley | 48 min |
| Apr 17, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Macon | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 35 min |
| Apr 17, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 18 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.