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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 7, 1998Elbert County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1998, 6:04 PM EDT for Elbert County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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: May 7, 1998, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1998, 6:50 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Elbert County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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, 6:15 PM EDT	Hail 2.75	Elberton, GA
May 7, 6:24 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Elberton, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 7, 5:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 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

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The text

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

842 
WFUS1 KGSP 072205 RRA
TORGSP
GAC105-072250-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
604 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC HAS
UPGRADED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING TO A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ELBERT COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 650 PM EDT

* AT 604 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO ALONG THE ELBERT/MADISON COUNTY BORDER ...
  MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  DEWY ROSE AT 615 PM AND THE CITY OF ELBERTON BETWEEN 620 PM AND
  630 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, 4:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Rabun	62 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, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham	47 min
May 7, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rabun	48 min

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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.