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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 28, 1997Banks County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1997, 5:13 PM EDT for Banks County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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 28, 1997, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1997, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Banks County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 28, 5:15 PM EDTHail 0.75Homer, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 28, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 1997-04-28Temperature 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 1997-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 282113 RRA
SVRATL
GAC011-282145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
513 PM EDT MON APR 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...BANKS COUNTY
 
AT 512 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR GAINESVILLE
TO JEFFERSON MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM
WILL REACH THE TOWN OF HOMER BY 520 PM EDT.
 
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.
 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 8:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCMeriwether, Spalding6 hr
Apr 28, 2:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilcox40 min
Apr 28, 2:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge30 min
Apr 28, 2:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge34 min
Apr 28, 3:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens50 min
Apr 28, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Heard43 min
Apr 28, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas, Fulton44 min
Apr 28, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Fulton45 min
Apr 28, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb51 min
Apr 28, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMorgan, Oconee65 min
Apr 28, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGordon65 min
Apr 28, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll34 min
Apr 28, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett59 min
Apr 28, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene40 min
Apr 28, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGilmer38 min
Apr 28, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Walton46 min
Apr 28, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas29 min
Apr 28, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPolk25 min
Apr 28, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHall, Jackson51 min
Apr 28, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Paulding43 min
Apr 28, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow45 min
Apr 28, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Fulton27 min
Apr 28, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Forsyth46 min
Apr 28, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMadison20 min
Apr 28, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGordon, Walker48 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.