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Tornado Warning 94, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 4, 1998Carroll County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1998, 7:11 PM EDT for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 19 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: Jun 4, 1998, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1998, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Carroll County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
Jun 4, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 2419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 4.0

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The text

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

417 
WFUS1 KATL 042311 RRA
TORATL
GAC045-042330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
711 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 708 PM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR  3
  MILES WEST OF VILLA RICA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.


A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT IN OR NEAR THE WARNED
AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF YOU EXPERIENCE
STORM DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES OR TREES...OR HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES
OR LARGER...PLEASE REPORT IT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING 770-486-8535.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 1:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	37 min
Jun 4, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	26 min
Jun 4, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	35 min
Jun 4, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	32 min
Jun 4, 2:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	34 min
Jun 4, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkes	32 min
Jun 4, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	50 min
Jun 4, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	36 min
Jun 4, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	47 min
Jun 4, 4:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Polk	37 min
Jun 4, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	50 min
Jun 4, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	50 min
Jun 4, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Union	36 min
Jun 4, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	35 min
Jun 4, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Gwinnett	47 min
Jun 4, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	34 min
Jun 4, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns, White	35 min
Jun 4, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	32 min
Jun 4, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	31 min
Jun 4, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Polk	48 min
Jun 4, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke	35 min
Jun 4, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Oconee	51 min
Jun 4, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Paulding	49 min
Jun 4, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fulton	36 min
Jun 4, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	34 min
Jun 4, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Douglas	35 min
Jun 4, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	36 min
Jun 4, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	33 min
Jun 4, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.