Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1997, 5:17 PM EDT for Chattahoochee County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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 9, 1997, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1997, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chattahoochee County, GA
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 092120 RRA SVRBHM GAC053-092210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 417 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 610 PM EDT (510 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY AT 517 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY AFFECTING MOST LOCATIONS. HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN SMITHS IN LEE COUNTY ALABAMA WITH THESE STORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAJS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, May 9, 11:35 AM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
ALZ024-091610- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1035 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF MINOR DAMAGE FROM STRONG WIND HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY FOR THE NEXT 30 MINUTES OR SO BEFORE ENDING.
Special weather statement, May 9, 12:13 PM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
ALZ027-091650- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1113 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN TALLADEGA COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SHIFTED EAST AND WEAKENED.
Special weather statement, May 9, 12:14 PM EDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
ALZ027-091650- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1113 AM CDT FRI MAY 9 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN TALLADEGA COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SHIFTED EAST AND WEAKENED.
Special weather statement, May 9, 4:49 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
GAZ089-092125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 349 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MUSCOGEE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST OF THE AREA.
Special weather statement, May 9, 4:52 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
GAZ089-092125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 349 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MUSCOGEE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST OF THE AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Muscogee | 50 min |
| May 9, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Muscogee | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.