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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 5, 1997Bleckley County, Dodge County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 5, 1997, 8:34 AM EST for Bleckley County, Dodge County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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
Jan 5, 1997, 8:34 AM EST (13:34 UTC)
Expired
Jan 5, 1997, 9:00 AM EST
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bleckley County, GA, Dodge County, GA

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 5, 6:15 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 1997-01-05Temperature 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 1997-01-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -223 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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 051335
SVRATL
GAC023-091-051400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
834 AM EST SUN JAN 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...BLECKLEY COUNTY...NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY
 
AT 833 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 WEST OF
COCHRAN MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
 
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 HOMEL OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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

Special weather statement, Jan 5, 4:19 AM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
GAZ001>007-011>013-019>021-030-041-050915-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
415 AM EST SUN JAN 5 1997

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THAT PORTION OF
NORTHWEST GEORGIA NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM BLUERIDGE TO CANTON
TO BUCHANAN. THIS CANCELS THE WATCH IN THE COUNTIES OF
DADE...WALKER...CATOOSA...WHITFIELD...FANNIN...GILMER...MURRAY...
PICKENS...CHEROKEE...BARTOW...GORDON...CHATTOOGA...FLOYD...POLK...
PAULDING AND HARALSON.

THE WATCH CONTINUES OVER THE REMAINDER OF NORTH GEORGIA AND PORTIONS
OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA.

THE SQUALL LINE PRODUCING THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT CAUSED THE WATCH TO
BE ISSUED CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTHEAST. SCATTERED RAIN CONTINUES TO
FALL BEHIND THE LINE AND AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT.
Special weather statement, Jan 5, 7:02 AM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>084-094-
095-051215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
700 AM EST SUN JAN 5 1997

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #7 HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

THE CANCELLATION IS FOR THAT PORTION OF GEORGIA NORTH AND WEST OF A
LINE LEXINGTON TO MADISON TO TALBOTTON.

THE SQUALL LINE PRODUCING THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT CAUSED THE WATCH TO
BE ISSUED CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTHEAST. SCATTE(RED RAIN CONTINUES TO
FALL BEHIND THE LINE AND AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 5, 1:49 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade26 min
Jan 5, 2:37 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga38 min
Jan 5, 3:03 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPolk27 min
Jan 5, 3:24 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow36 min
Jan 5, 4:31 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton29 min
Jan 5, 5:09 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTroup36 min
Jan 5, 5:37 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHenry, Spalding38 min
Jan 5, 5:58 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Jasper, Newton32 min
Jan 5, 7:38 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Hancock37 min
Jan 5, 7:49 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Houston, Macon26 min
Jan 5, 8:25 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Pulaski35 min
Jan 5, 8:51 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens54 min
Jan 5, 9:03 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge27 min

Nearby

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