Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 69, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1998, 3:34 PM EDT for Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- May 7, 1998, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1998, 4:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Ivy Log, GA | A severe thunderstorm tracked across northern Union county spawning an intermittent F0 tornado. A combination of tornadic winds, downburst winds and large hail caused damage in a path from Ivy Log to northeast of Blairsville. Sight survey by NWS employees show |
| May 7, 3:55 PM EDT | Hail 2.75 | Ivy Log, GA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 650 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KATL 071934 RRA
TORATL
GAC291-072010-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
334 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA
* UNTIL 410 PM EDT
* AT 334 PM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 3
MILES NORTHWEST OF LEWNER MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
LEWNER AROUND 335 PM EDT
BLAIRSVILLE AROUND 355 PM EDT
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. IF
YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND
IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A
REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. 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.
KDF/MSSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 36 min |
| May 7, 9:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 35 min |
| May 7, 9:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 32 min |
| May 7, 9:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 35 min |
| May 7, 9:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 34 min |
| May 7, 9:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 36 min |
| May 7, 9:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 36 min |
| May 7, 10:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 36 min |
| May 7, 10:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale | 50 min |
| May 7, 10:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth | 34 min |
| May 7, 11:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Jackson | 31 min |
| May 7, 11:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 34 min |
| May 7, 11:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 33 min |
| May 7, 11:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 36 min |
| May 7, 12:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 18 min |
| May 7, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 35 min |
| May 7, 3:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fannin | 32 min |
| May 7, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns | 32 min |
| May 7, 4:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Towns | 33 min |
| May 7, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 49 min |
| May 7, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 50 min |
| May 7, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 32 min |
| May 7, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer, Lumpkin | 34 min |
| May 7, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 49 min |
| May 7, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 35 min |
| May 7, 6:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 20 min |
| May 7, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 47 min |
| May 7, 6:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 36 min |
| May 7, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 35 min |
| May 7, 6:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walker | 36 min |
| May 7, 6:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall | 33 min |
| May 7, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 49 min |
| May 7, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 33 min |
| May 7, 6:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns | 36 min |
| May 7, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 36 min |
| May 7, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 32 min |
| May 7, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oconee | 51 min |
| May 7, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Murray | 33 min |
| May 7, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 36 min |
| May 7, 7:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pickens | 33 min |
| May 7, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 35 min |
| May 7, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 34 min |
| May 7, 7:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 32 min |
| May 7, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 51 min |
| May 7, 7:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 34 min |
| May 7, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 36 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.