Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1998, 2:46 PM EDT for Appling County, Wayne County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 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
- Jun 27, 1998, 2:46 PM EDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 3:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Appling County, GA, Wayne County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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 27, 2:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Surrency, GA | Large trees were blown down. |
| Jun 27, 3:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Broadhurst, GA | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 749 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Columbia | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Suwannee | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Hamilton | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Suwannee | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Pierce | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Echols | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.