Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1997, 6:45 PM EST for Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 30, 1997, 6:45 PM EST (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1997, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Muscogee County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
931 WUUS1 KBHM 302347 RRA SVRBHM GAC053-215-310015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 645 PM EST SUN MAR 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...CHATTAHOOCHEE ...MUSCOGEE AT 644 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER MUSCOGEE AND CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTIES. THE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE COLUMBUS AREA AS WELL AS MOST OTHER LOCATIONS ACROSS BOTH COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... EXTREMELY INTENSE LIGHTNING IS ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS... STAY AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING THE TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. STAY OUT OF YOUR BATHTUB OR SHOWER BECAUSE LIGHTNING CAN TRAVEL THROUGH WATER PIPES.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 6:40 PM EST, 5 minutes before
ALZ027-029-035>038-041>044-310030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 540 PM CST SUN MAR 30 1997 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... TALLADEGA...CLAY...RANDOLPH...CHILTON...COOSA...TALLAPOOSA ...CHAMBERS...AUTAUGA...ELMORE...LOWNDES...AND MONTGOMERY.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 6:41 PM EST, 4 minutes before
ALZ027-029-035>038-041>044-310030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 540 PM CST SUN MAR 30 1997 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... TALLADEGA...CLAY...RANDOLPH...CHILTON...COOSA...TALLAPOOSA ...CHAMBERS...AUTAUGA...ELMORE...LOWNDES...AND MONTGOMERY.
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.