Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1997, 5:59 PM EDT for Douglas County, Fayette County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 22, 1997, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 6:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta, GA | |
| Apr 22, 6:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Peachtree City, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 222200 RRA SVRATL GAC097-113-121-199-222245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 559 PM EDT TUE APR 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...DOUGLAS COUNTY...FAYETTE COUNTY...FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MERIWETHER COUNTY AT 557 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES EAST OF CARROLLTON THROUGH NEWNAN TO 10 MILES EAST OF LAGRANGE. THE SEVERE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT IN OR NEAR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF YOU EXPERIENCE STORM DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES 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 21, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 27 min |
| Apr 21, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 29 min |
| Apr 21, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe, Upson | 38 min |
| Apr 21, 10:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 34 min |
| Apr 21, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 25 min |
| Apr 21, 10:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 51 min |
| Apr 21, 10:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 51 min |
| Apr 22, 12:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Apr 22, 2:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 51 min |
| Apr 22, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 39 min |
| Apr 22, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 30 min |
| Apr 22, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry, Pike, Spalding | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 39 min |
| Apr 22, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 27 min |
| Apr 22, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Monroe, Newton | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 27 min |
| Apr 22, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 26 min |
| Apr 22, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Washington | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.