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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 8, 1997Dooly County, Pulaski County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1997, 1:24 PM EST for Dooly County, Pulaski County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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: Jan 8, 1997, 1:24 PM EST (18:24 UTC)
Expired: Jan 8, 1997, 2:00 PM EST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dooly County, GA, Pulaski County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 8, 1:25 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Unadilla, 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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1880 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 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 081824 RRA
SVRATL
GAC093-235-081900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
124 PM EST WED JAN 8 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...DOOLY COUNTY...PULASKI COUNTY
 
AT 120 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM DOOLING TO UNIDILLA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EASTNORTHEAST AT 40
MILES AN HOUR. THIS MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE STORMS ACROSS UNIDILLA FROM
120 PM TO AROUND 140 PM. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE TO HAWKINSVILLE BY 140
PM.
 
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.

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

Local storm report, Jan 8, 12:41 PM EST, 43 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1244 PM EST WED JAN 8 1997

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

1225 PM     MERIWETHER    GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED 5 MILES SOUTH
        ,                  OF PRIMROSE. PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT
                          GREENVILLE.

Local storm report, Jan 8, 12:44 PM EST, 40 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1244 PM EST WED JAN 8 1997

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

1225 PM     MERIWETHER    GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED 5 MILES SOUTH
                          OF PRIMROSE. PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT
                          GREENVILLE.

Local storm report, Jan 8, 1:06 PM EST, 18 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
108 PM EST WED JAN 8 1997

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT
1215PM       WEBSTER      3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED AT WESTON

1245PM       SUMTER       3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED 4.5 MILES
                          SOUTHWEST OF AMERICUS. SMALL HAIL
                          REPORTED IN AMERICUS AT SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

Local storm report, Jan 8, 1:08 PM EST, 16 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
108 PM EST WED JAN 8 1997

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT
1215PM       WEBSTER      3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED AT WESTON

1245PM       SUMTER       3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED 4.5 MILES
                          SOUTHWEST OF AMERICUS. SMALL HAIL
                          REPORTED IN AMERICUS AT SHERIFFS OFFICE.

Local storm report, Jan 8, 1:17 PM EST, 7 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
121 PM EST WED JAN 8 1997

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT
1225 PM      SUMTER       AT DAVIS EASY MART (CONVIENCE STORE) IN
                          PLAINS, GA...DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.

Local storm report, Jan 8, 1:21 PM EST, 3 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
121 PM EST WED JAN 8 1997

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT
1225 PM      SUMTER       AT DAVIS EASY MART (CONVIENCE STORE) IN
                          PLAINS, GA...DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 8, 11:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	38 min
Jan 8, 12:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter, Webster	35 min
Jan 8, 12:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	31 min
Jan 8, 12:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	30 min
Jan 8, 2:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley	30 min
Jan 8, 5:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	48 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.