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Tornado Warning 70, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 7, 1998Towns County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1998, 4:02 PM EDT for Towns County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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: May 7, 1998, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1998, 4:35 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Towns County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 7, 4:06 PM EDT	Hail 2.75	Young Harris, GA	The public reported golf ball to baseball size hail in Young Harris. Up to one and a half inch diameter hail was reported in Hiawassee.

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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 072002 RRA
TORATL
GAC281-072035-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
402 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TOWNS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 435 PM EDT

* AT 401 PM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR  9
  MILES WEST OF PRESLEY MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
    PRESLEY                     AROUND 415 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/MSS

The 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, 3:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Union	36 min
May 7, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns	32 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

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.