Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 491, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 4:43 PM EDT for Quitman County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Oct 25, 1997, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Quitman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 989 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 252047 RRA SVRBHM GAC239-252115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 343 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT (415 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA ...QUITMAN COUNTY... AT 442 PM EDT... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN QUITMAN COUNTY. THE STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE HATCHER AND MORRIS AREAS BETWEEN 445 PM AND 515 PM EDT. LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. <<CALL TO ACTION>> SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTR UCTIVE 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 AREAS 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
Local storm report, Oct 25, 1:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1250 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1240 PM JONES CHAPEL AL .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN DIME SIZE HAIL IN JONES
CHAPEL
1249 PM CULLMAN AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN GOLF-BALL SIZE HAIL AT
WEST POINT TO THE
NORTHWEST OF CITY OF
CULLMANLocal storm report, Oct 25, 1:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1250 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1240 PM JONES CHAPEL AL .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN DIME SIZE HAIL IN JONES
CHAPEL
1249 PM CULLMAN AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
10/258/97 CULLMAN GOLF-BALL SIZE HAIL AT
WEST POINT TO THE
NORTHWEST OF CITY OF
CULLMANLocal storm report, Oct 25, 2:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
106 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1254 PM CULLMAN AL .88 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT
JUNCTION OF HWY. 157 AND
I-65
0105 PM CULLMAN AL 2.75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AT
CULLMANLocal storm report, Oct 25, 2:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
106 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1254 PM CULLMAN AL .88 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT
JUNCTION OF HWY. 157 AND
I-65
0105 PM CULLMAN AL 2.75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AT
CULLMANLocal storm report, Oct 25, 2:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
125 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 PM CULLMAN AL WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 CULLMAN NUMEROUS LARGE TREES DOWN
ON HOMES AND VEHICLES IN
CULLMAN...ALSO SHED ROOFS
BLOWN OFFLocal storm report, Oct 25, 2:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
125 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 PM CULLMAN AL WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 CULLMAN NUMEROUS LARGE TREES DOWN
ON HOMES AND VEHICLES IN
CULLMAN...ALSO SHED ROOFS
BLOWN OFFNearby
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.