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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1998, 4:20 PM EST for Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 3, 1998, 4:20 PM EST (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Webster County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 3, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
084 WFUS1 KATL 032121 RRA TORATL GAC307-032145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 420 PM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...WEBSTER COUNTY AT 419 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUMPKIN IN STEWART COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN THE STRONGEST NEARBY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT OR DITCH. LIE FLAT IN THE DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR ARMS AND HANDS. 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 3, 9:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 17 min |
| Apr 3, 9:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 9:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 30 min |
| Apr 3, 10:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington, Wilkinson | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 10:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 10:38 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson | 22 min |
| Apr 3, 10:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 20 min |
| Apr 3, 1:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Putnam | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 1:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 2:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Washington | 54 min |
| Apr 3, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 2:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Washington | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 3:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 3:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 3:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 4:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 4:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 4:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 4:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 4:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 4:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 4:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley, Sumter | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 4:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 5:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 5:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 5:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 5:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 6:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 6:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 18 min |
| Apr 3, 6:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Fulton | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 6:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 6:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.