Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 10:46 AM EST for Quitman County, Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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
- Jan 24, 1997, 10:46 AM EST (15:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 11:30 AM EST
- In force
- 44 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 15:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 380 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 241546 RRA SVRBHM GAC239-259-241630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 946 AM CST (1046 AM EST) FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CST (1130 AM EST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA ...QUITMAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...STEWART COUNTY AT 1045 AM EST RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO STEWART AND QUITMAN COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 45 MPH...AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE WARNED COUNTIES THROUGH 1130 AM EST 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 TO 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, Jan 24, 10:10 AM EST, 36 minutes before
ALZ052>055-057-241610- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 910 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN ALABAMA IS HEREBY CANCELLED WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE...WILCOX...AND BUTLER THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PROVIDING THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED ON EAST OF THIS AREA. ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE TOWARD SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Jan 24, 10:34 AM EST, 12 minutes before
ALZ040>043-045-241635- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 934 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS ISSUSED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN ALABAMA IS HEREBY CANCELLED. DALLAS...AUTAUGA...LOWNDES...ELMORE...MONTGOMERY...MACON THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED ON EAST AT THIS TIME. ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE LATER TODAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES IN FROM THE WEST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 10:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 48 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.