Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1998, 4:18 PM EDT for Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 62 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, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1998, 5:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rabun County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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, 4:55 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Clayton, 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
054 WFUS1 KGSP 072019 RRA TORGSP GAC241-072120- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 418 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RABUN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 520 PM EDT * AT 418 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN CENTRAL TOWNS COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO ENTER WESTERN RABUN COUNTY NEAR THE TALLULAH RIVER BETWEEN 430 PM AND 440 AND TO NEAR TIGER AND WILEY BY 450 PM IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. KAJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Stephens | 46 min |
| May 7, 10:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin, Hart | 32 min |
| May 7, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Habersham | 47 min |
| May 7, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin | 49 min |
| May 7, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert, Hart | 45 min |
| May 7, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 66 min |
| May 7, 6:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Elbert | 46 min |
| May 7, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham | 47 min |
| May 7, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 48 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.