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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 18, 1998Dade County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 18, 1998, 8:42 PM EDT for Dade County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 18, 1998, 8:42 PM EDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 1998, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Dade 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 18, 6:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

103 
WFUS1 KATL 190043 RRA
TORATL
GAC083-190115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
842 PM EDT SAT APR 18 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
    RISING FAWN                 AROUND 845 PM EDT
    CLOUDLAND CANYON SP         AROUND 855 PM EDT
    TRENTON                     AROUND 855 PM EDT
    NEW ENGLAND                 AROUND 900 PM EDT

* AT 841 PM EDT...  10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RISING FAWN... A TORNADO
  WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING NORTHEAST 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.



GMB/GLB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 18, 8:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Walker	50 min
Apr 18, 9:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Walker, Whitfield	35 min
Apr 18, 10:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Floyd	34 min
Apr 18, 10:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon	35 min
Apr 18, 11:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gordon	32 min
Apr 18, 11:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Whitfield	2 hr
Apr 19, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Twiggs	33 min
Apr 19, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	35 min
Apr 19, 1:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Jones, Twiggs	34 min
Apr 19, 1:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Baldwin	34 min
Apr 19, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock	35 min
Apr 19, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Warren	31 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.