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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 19, 1997Murray County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1997, 8:40 PM EDT for Murray County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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: Apr 19, 1997, 8:40 PM EDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 1997, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Murray County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 19, 9:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.9	Chatsworth, 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 200039 RRA
SVRATL
GAC213-200115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
840 PM EDT SAT APR 19 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...MURRAY COUNTY
 
AT 835 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN
WHITFIELD COUNTY. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN MURRY
COUNTY BY 845 PM REACHING CISCO AND CHATSWORTH BY 850 PM EDT. THIS STORM
HAS PRODUCED NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN NORTHERN WHITFIELD COUNTY.
 
DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING
ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BOATERS, GOLFERS, AND OTHERS
INVOLVED IN OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
IF YOU EXPERIENCE STORM DAMAGE TO STRUCrTURES OR TREES...OR HAIL THE
SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER...PLEASE REPORT IT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE BY CALLING 770-486-8535.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	44 min
Apr 19, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Whitfield	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.