Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 123, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 1997, 12:57 PM EDT for Quitman County, Georgia. It was in force for 18 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 24, 1997, 12:57 PM EDT (16:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 1997, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Quitman County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 597 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 241658 RRA TORBHM GAC239-241715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1157 AM CDT FRI OCT 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM EDT (1215 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN QUITMAN COUNTY... AT 1253 PM EDT... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE ALABAMA/GEORGIA BORDER WEST OF HATCHER. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT A TORNADO IS LIKELY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MPH. THE STORM WILL AFFECT MOSTLY THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY...INCLUDING HATCHER AND MORRIS. <<CALL TO ACTION>> THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Oct 24, 10:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-250100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 930 AM CDT FRI OCT 24 1997 A FAST MOVING LOW PRESSURE TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS EAST ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY OVER EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS MORNING. THERE IS A CHANCE OF ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH NOON FOR EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE SHOWERS WILL TAPER OFF EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AS A UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS OVER THE AREA. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS TODAY. FOR THE SOUTHERN ALABAMA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/INDEX.HTML ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB.
Special weather statement, Oct 24, 10:40 AM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-250100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 930 AM CDT FRI OCT 24 1997 A FAST MOVING LOW PRESSURE TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS EAST ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY OVER EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS MORNING. THERE IS A CHANCE OF ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH NOON FOR EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE SHOWERS WILL TAPER OFF EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AS A UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS OVER THE AREA. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS TODAY. FOR THE SOUTHERN ALABAMA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR MORE WEATHERX INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/INDEX.HTML ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB.
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.