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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 8, 1997Bleckley County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1997, 2:00 PM EST for Bleckley County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 8, 1997, 2:00 PM EST (19:00 UTC)
Expired
Jan 8, 1997, 2:30 PM EST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Bleckley County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 1997-01-08Temperature 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 1997-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 081901 RRA
SVRATL
GAC023-081930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
200 PM EST WED JAN 8 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...BLECKLEY COUNTY
 
AT 200 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
ENTERING SOUTHWEST BLECKLEY COUNTY 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COCHRAN. THIS
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED DIME SIZED HAIL IN UNADILLA EARLIER THIS
AFTERNOON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 8, 11:42 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTroup38 min
Jan 8, 12:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter, Webster35 min
Jan 8, 12:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether31 min
Jan 8, 12:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter30 min
Jan 8, 1:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Pulaski36 min
Jan 8, 5:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.