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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 19, 1998Baldwin County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1998, 1:46 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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 19, 1998, 1:46 PM EDT (17:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 1998, 2:20 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Baldwin County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 227 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

755 
WFUS1 KATL 191747 RRA
TORATL
GAC009-169-289-191820-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
146 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  JONES COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
  TWIGGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 220 PM EDT

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
    JAMES                       AROUND 150 PM EDT
    HADDOCK                     AROUND 155 PM EDT
    BROWNS CROSSING             AROUND 200 PM EDT
    COOPERS                     AROUND 200 PM EDT
    SCOTTSBORO                  AROUND 205 PM EDT
    MERIWETHER                  AROUND 210 PM EDT
    HARDWICK                    AROUND 210 PM EDT
    MILLEDGEVILLE               AROUND 210 PM EDT

* AT 144 PM EDT...  1 MILE WEST OF GRISWOLDVILLE... 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.


KM/MPM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 18, 8:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dade	33 min
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, 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.