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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 526, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 21, 1997Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 21, 1997, 7:53 PM EST for Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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 21, 1997, 7:53 PM EST (00:53 UTC)
Expired
Nov 21, 1997, 8:45 PM EST
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Muscogee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1997-11-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 440 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1997-11-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 562 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
440 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
562 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
896 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Nov 21, 7:08 PM EST, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
608 PM CST FRI NOV 21 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM                              AL   WIND DAMAGE
11/21/97   LOWNDES                        TREE DOWN ON A CAR NO
                                          INJURIES

0545 PM    5 S SNOWDOUN              AL   .75 INCH HAIL
11/21/97   MONTGOMERY                     DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES
                                          SOUTH SNOWDOUN
Local storm report, Nov 21, 7:10 PM EST, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
608 PM CST FRI NOV 21 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM                              AL   WIND DAMAGE
11/21/97   LOWNDES                        TREE DOWN ON A CAR NO
                                          INJURIES

0545 PM    5 S SNOWDOUN              AL   .75 INCH HAIL
11/21/97   MONTGOMERY         N            DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES
                                          SOUTH SNOWDOUN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 21, 7:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChattahoochee, Muscogee47 min
Nov 21, 8:16 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXChattahoochee, Stewart34 min
Nov 21, 9:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXStewart18 min

Nearby

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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.