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Tornado Warning 97, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 5, 1998Talbot County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1998, 6:55 PM EDT for Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 5, 1998, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1998, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Talbot County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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 5, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 1574 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The text

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

025 
WFUS1 KATL 052257 RRA
TORATL
GAC263-052330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
655 PM EDT FRI JUN 5 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TALBOT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 654 PM EDT... A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR  7
  MILES WEST OF PRATTSBURG MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
    PRATTSBURG                  AROUND 710 PM EDT



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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Henry	34 min
Jun 4, 8:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Clayton, Henry	22 min
Jun 4, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Newton	34 min
Jun 4, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	34 min
Jun 4, 8:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper	35 min
Jun 4, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Putnam	49 min
Jun 4, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	36 min
Jun 4, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Heard	35 min
Jun 4, 9:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Treutlen	33 min
Jun 4, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	35 min
Jun 4, 9:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock	35 min
Jun 4, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	32 min
Jun 4, 10:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Toombs	20 min
Jun 5, 7:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Polk	49 min
Jun 5, 8:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson, Paulding	40 min
Jun 5, 8:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	35 min
Jun 5, 8:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	32 min
Jun 5, 9:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Spalding	32 min
Jun 5, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	36 min
Jun 5, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	49 min
Jun 5, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Webster	49 min
Jun 5, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Talbot	49 min
Jun 5, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	34 min
Jun 5, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Polk	47 min
Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley, Taylor	65 min
Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Upson	65 min
Jun 5, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp	34 min
Jun 5, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilcox	50 min
Jun 5, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Peach	61 min
Jun 5, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Monroe	61 min
Jun 5, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	61 min
Jun 5, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	32 min
Jun 5, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski, Wilcox	48 min
Jun 5, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Twiggs	48 min
Jun 5, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	51 min
Jun 5, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens, Wilkinson	66 min
Jun 5, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair	66 min
Jun 5, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin	47 min
Jun 5, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Union	47 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.