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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 4, 1998Charlton County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1998, 10:40 PM EDT for Charlton County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 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
May 4, 1998, 10:40 PM EDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 1998, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Charlton County, GA

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 4, 2:10 PM EDT, 8 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 2:10 PM EDT, 8 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
210 PM EDT MON MAY 4 1998

SHWRS AND TSTMS FIRING ALG FRNTL BNDRY OVR SE GA THIS AFTN. SVR WX
WATCH CONTS THIS AREA UNTIL 6 PM. STORMS XPCD TO CONTINUE INTO THE
EVE HRS. CLRG LN LAYS BACK TO THE WEST AND WILL MOVE IN LATER TNGHT.

STORMS OVR N FL MOVING INTO CNTRL FL ARE MORE INDICATIVE OF BOW ECHO
TYPE PATTERN. THIS AREA HAVING SMWHT BETTER INSTABILITY...  ALTHOUGH
BEST DYNAMCIS OVR GA. DVLPMNT OF THIS ACTVTY WILL CONT TO HANG AFTR
SUNSET TAPERING OFF TWRDS MIDNIGHT...MOVMNT CARRIES THIS ACTVTY INTO
TBW AND MLB CWA AREA.

WOULD SUGGEST WORDING ALG THE LINES OF THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON TO
BRING IN THE CURRENT CONDS THEN HAVING WX TAPERING OFF AFTR TWRDS
MIDNIGHT. WOULD ALSO SUGGEST SMALL CRAFT SHLD EXERCISE CAUTION FOR FL
AND GA WTRS.

PRELIM

SSI UU 061/082 062/081 07200
JAX UU 061/085 059/086 07300
GNV UU 061/085 060/086 07300

K. KUYPER

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.