Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1997, 10:05 PM EDT for Quitman County, Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 60 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
- Apr 22, 1997, 10:05 PM EDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1997, 11:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Quitman County, GA, Stewart County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 10:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
496 WUUS1 KBHM 230207 RRA SVRBHM GAC239-259-230305- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 905 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1105 PM EDT (1005 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA ...QUITMAN IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...STEWART AT 905 PM CDT (1005 PM EDT)...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN BARBOUR COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH...AND WILL MOVE INTO STEWART AND QUITMAN COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA BETWEEN 1015 PM EDT AND 1045 PM EDT. WIND DAMAGE AND LARGE HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS OVER WESTERN BARBOUR COUNTY DURING THE PAST SEVERAL MINUTES. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. &
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, Apr 22, 4:27 PM EDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ001>004-011>015-022-023-030>032-039-222130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 327 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST ALABAMA... LAUDERDALE..COLBERT..FRANKLIN...LAWRENCE..MARION..WINSTON.. LAMAR..FAYETTE..WALKER..PICKENS..TUSCALOOSA..GREENE..HALE.. SUMTER..MARENGO.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 4:28 PM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
ALZ001>004-011>015-022-023-030>032-039-222130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 327 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST ALABAMA... LAUDERDALE..COLBERT..FRANKLIN...LAWRENCE..MARION..WINSTON.. LAMAR..FAYETTE..WALKER..PICKENS..TUSCALOOSA..GREENE..HALE.. SUMTER..MARENGO.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 5:44 PM EDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
ALZ009-010-016>021-024-026-222215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 442 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...JACKSON... DEKALB... CULLMAN... BLOUNT... ETOWAH... CALHOUN ...CHEROKEE... CLEBURNE... JEFFERSON... ST. CLAIR
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 8:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
ALZ025-027>029-033>036-040-041-230100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 740 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN ALABAMA... ...SHELBY...BIBB...CHILTON...PERRY...DALLAS...AUTAUGA...COOSA... TALLADEGA...CLAY...RANDOLPH...
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 9:35 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
ALZ037-038-043-230200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 835 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN ALABAMA... ...ELMORE...TALLAPOOSA...CHAMBERS...
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.