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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 5, 1997Dooly County, Houston County, Macon County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 5, 1997, 7:49 AM EST for Dooly County, Houston County, Macon County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 1997, 7:49 AM EST (12:49 UTC)
Expired: Jan 5, 1997, 8:15 AM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dooly County, GA, Houston County, GA, Macon County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 5, 8:00 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Montezuma, GA
Jan 5, 8:10 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Byromville, GA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 5, 6:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -189 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 KATL 051249
SVRATL
GAC093-153-193-051315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
749 AM EST SUN JAN 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHERN DOOLY COUNTY...SOUTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MACON COUNTY
 
AT 747 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
OGLETHORPE MOVING EAST NEAR 50 MPH. THIS PATH WILL TAKE THE STORM OVER
PERRY BY 810 AM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE 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
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 5, 1:49 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade	26 min
Jan 5, 2:37 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	38 min
Jan 5, 3:03 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	27 min
Jan 5, 3:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	36 min
Jan 5, 4:31 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton	29 min
Jan 5, 5:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	36 min
Jan 5, 5:37 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Spalding	38 min
Jan 5, 5:58 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Newton	32 min
Jan 5, 7:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock	37 min
Jan 5, 8:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Pulaski	35 min
Jan 5, 8:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge	26 min
Jan 5, 8:51 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	54 min
Jan 5, 9:03 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge	27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.