Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 7:23 PM EDT for Habersham County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 24, 1998, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1998, 7:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Habersham County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:40 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Clarkesville, GA |
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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 324 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
- 1916 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
059 WUUS1 KGSP 242324 RRA SVRGSP GAC137-242355- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 723 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HABERSHAM COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 755 PM EDT * AT 723 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF CLARKESVILLE...MOVING SOUTH- SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... AREAS BETWEEN BATESVILLE AND CLARKESVILLE AT 740 PM ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL IS THE BIGGEST THREAT WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...BRIEF DAMAGING WINDS COULD ALSO OCCUR. MOYER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 24, 1:17 PM EDT, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 1:17 PM EDT, 6 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC 117 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 CAE/RAH/FFC: NO SIG CHGS MDLS IN AGREEMENT IN DROPPING S/WV ALONG FNT SIDE OF UPPER RIDGE TONITE. NOT MUCH ON SATL AT TIME WITH S/WV. ETA HAS S/WV MOVG JUST TO EAST OF OUR CWA BTWN 18-06Z. SOME WIDELY SCT TSTMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS AFTN ACR EASTERN PART OF CWA IN NC...PRBLY AHEAD OF S/WV COMING ACROSS NC. HOWEVER THER IS NOT MUCH IN WAY OF MOISTURE OR 7MB VV. ONLY AREA WITH SOME....VERY SMALL CHC WOULD BE EXTREME EASTERN NC AND SC COUNTIES IN OUR CWA. WENT WITH FWC TEMPS OR A LITTE HIGHER BASED ON YSTDY TEMPS. NO POPS IN FCST WILL COVER ANY ISOLDED TSTM WITH NOWS AVL 64/92/64/90 0/0/0/0 CLT 77/97/76/98 0/0/0/0 GSP 70/98/70/97 0/0/0/0 PT
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 24, 5:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
530 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
529 PM 4 NW JONESVILLE SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 UNION AMATEUR RADIO REPORT
BWMLocal storm report, Jun 24, 5:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
530 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
529 PM 4 NW JONESVILLE SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 UNION AMATEUR RADIO REPORT
BWMLocal storm report, Jun 24, 6:53 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
653 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
640 PM WEDDINGTON NC .88 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 UNION SPOTTER REPORT OF DIME TO
NICKEL SIZE HAIL
BWMLocal storm report, Jun 24, 6:53 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
653 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
640 PM WEDDINGTON NC .88 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 UNION SPOTTER REPORT OF DIME TO
NICKEL SIZE HAIL
BWMLocal storm report, Jun 24, 6:57 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
657 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
655 PM MINERAL SPRINGS NC .75 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 UNION SPOTTER REPORT OF DIME SIZE
HAIL.
BWMLocal storm report, Jun 24, 6:57 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
657 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
655 PM MINERAL SPRINGS NC .75 INCH HAIL
06/24/98 UNION SPOTTER REPORT OF DIME SIZE
HAIL.
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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.