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Tornado Warning 159, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 1, 1997Chattahoochee County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 1, 1997, 4:18 PM EST for Chattahoochee 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
Nov 1, 1997, 4:18 PM EST (21:18 UTC)
Expired
Nov 1, 1997, 4:50 PM EST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Chattahoochee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 12:00Z on 1997-11-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1997-11-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 012118 RRA
TORBHM
GAC053-012150-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
318 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 450 PM EST (350 PM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

   ...CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY...

AT 417 PM EST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR FORT
BENNING AND MOVING EAST AT NEAR 30 MPH.


<<CALL TO ACTION>>
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO... THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT.
 IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE... SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH
AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF
STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS... PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER
YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 1, 9:34 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMuscogee36 min
Nov 1, 3:55 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXMuscogee50 min
Nov 1, 4:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMuscogee47 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes 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.