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Tornado Warning 98, NWS Atlanta, GA

September 29, 1998Macon County, Schley County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 5:09 PM EDT for Macon County, Schley County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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: Sep 29, 1998, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired: Sep 29, 1998, 5:40 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Macon County, GA, Schley County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 29, 5:25 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ideal, GA	Reports from the Macon county sheriff's office and newspaper accounts indicated trees were downed in the west part of Macon county. A car was reported damaged by a falling tree.
Sep 29, 5:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville, GA	A newspaper reported trees were toppled and a porch was torn off a mobile home in the northern part of Schley county.

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
Sep 29, 11:00 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

493 
WFUS1 KATL 292110 RRA
TORATL
GAC193-249-292140-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
509 PM EDT TUE SEP 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MACON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SCHLEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 540 PM EDT

* AT 505 PM EDT... DOPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO  8 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF   ELLAVILLE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
    ELLAVILLE                   AROUND 515 PM EDT
    MURRAYS CROSSROADS          AROUND 525 PM EDT
    CONCORD                     AROUND 525 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
Sep 29, 5:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Johnson	35 min
Sep 29, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	35 min
Sep 29, 6:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Sumter	35 min
Sep 29, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson	34 min
Sep 29, 6:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Macon, Taylor	34 min
Sep 29, 7:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Wheeler	34 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.