Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 45, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 11:57 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 18 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
- Apr 16, 1998, 11:57 PM EDT (03:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1998, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Floyd County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 12:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Rome, GA | The Floyd county EMA reported power lines were downed by trees felled by thunderstorm winds. A police office in Lindale reported a funnel cloud. |
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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 119 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.
673
WFUS1 KATL 170358 RRA
TORATL
GAC115-170415-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1157 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1215 AM EDT
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
COOSA AROUND 1159 PM EDT
CAVE SPRING AROUND 1200 AM EDT
* AT 1154 PM EDT... 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COOSA... A TORNADO WAS
INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST 45 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.
MSS/MLThe 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, 11:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 11:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 32 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 |
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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.