Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 495, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1997, 9:34 AM EST for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Nov 1, 1997, 9:34 AM EST (14:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1997, 10:10 AM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Muscogee County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 011435 RRA SVRBHM GAC215-011510- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 834 AM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1010 AM EST (910 AM CST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MUSCOGEE COUNTY... AT 933 AM EST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING LARGE HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF UPATOI MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... UPATOI AROUND 931 AM EST... <<CALL TO ACTION>> IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK REFUGE FROM THE STORM IN A STRONG BUILDING. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD TAKE SHELTER. DAMAGING WIND... LARGE HAIL... VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE ALL LIKELY. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES OR OTHER ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS. THESE ATTRACT LIGHTNING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO ARdEAS 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, Nov 1, 5:30 AM EST, 4 hours 4 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-011400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 445 AM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY. AN UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE WILL PASS OVER THE STATE TODAY. AT THE SURFACE...A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO WESTERN GEORGIA THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF WEST AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS MORNING. STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES THROUGHOUT THE DAY. A GREATER POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PARTS OF ALABAMA THROUGH THE DAY.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 5:45 AM EST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-011400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 445 AM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY. AN UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE WILL PASS OVER THE STATE TODAY. AT THE SURFACE...A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO WESTERN GEORGIA THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF WEST AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS MORNING. STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES THROUGHOUT THE DAY. A GREATER POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PARTS OF ALABAMA THROUGH THE DAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 3:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Muscogee | 50 min |
| Nov 1, 4:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee | 32 min |
| Nov 1, 4:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Muscogee | 47 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.