Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1997, 7:53 PM EDT for Hancock County, Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1997, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, GA, Washington County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sparta, GA | |
| Apr 22, 8:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Deepstep, 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, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 222353 RRA SVRATL GAC141-303-230030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 753 PM EDT TUE APR 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...HANCOCK COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM LAKE SINCLAIR TO IRWINTON WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS WILL TAKE THE LINE ACROSS SPARTA AND SANDERSVILLE BY BETWEEN 815 PM AND 830 PM. 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 S(ERVICE BY CALLING 770-486-8535.
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, Apr 22, 7:40 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
GAZ001>005-011>012-019>020-230030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 740 PM EDT TUE APR 22 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST GEORGIA... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER UNDER A TORNADO WATCH... DADE...WALKER...CATOOSA...WHITFIELD...MURRAY...CHATOOGA... GORDON...FLOYD...AND BARTOW. WHILE THE THREAT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS PASSED FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST GEORGIA...ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE REST OF NORTH AND WESTCENTRAL GEORGIA. COUNTIES REMAINING UNDER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 183 UNTIL 10 PM EDT ARE... ...NORTHWEST ... FANNIN GILMER PICKENS DAWSON CHEROKEE FORSYTH POLK PAULDING COBB FULTON GWINNETT HARALSON CARROLL DOUGLAS DEKALB ROCKDALE HEARD COWETA FAYETTE CLAYTON SPALDING HENRY ...NORTHEAST ... UNION TOWNS RABUN LUMPKIN WHITE HABERSHAM STEPHENS HALL BANKS JACKSON BARROW WALTON NEWTON BUTTS ...WESTCENTRAL ... TROUP MERIWETHER PIKE UPSON LAMAR HARRIS TALBOT TAYLOR MUSCOGEE CHATTAHOOCHEE MARION SCHLEY STEWART WEBSTER ...CENTRAL ... MONROE ...SOUTHWEST ... QUITMAN CLAY RANDOLPH CALHOUN TERRELL EARLY SEMINOLE A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF CENTRAL AND EAST GEORGIA UNTIL 1 AM EDT.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 7:41 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
GAZ001>005-011>012-019>020-230030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 740 PM EDT TUE APR 22 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST GEORGIA... THE FOLL
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, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fayette, Fulton | 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 |
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.