Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

May 2, 1997, 10:15 PM EDT (02:15 UTC)

Expired

May 2, 1997, 11:00 PM EDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Bartow County, GA, Gordon County, GA

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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TTAA00 KATL 030217 RRA
SVRATL
GAC015-129-030300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1015 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...BARTOW COUNTY...GORDON COUNTY
 
AT 1010 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM EVERETT
SPRINGS TO COOSA IN FLOYD COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
STORMS SHOULD REACH CALHOUN BY 1025PM AND ADAIRSVILLE BY 1035 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
SERVICE BY CALLING 770-486-8535.

In the hours before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-031200-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
515 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 1997

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL
GEORGIA TONIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY.

A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE CENTRAL U.S. IS EXPECTED TO
MOVE EAST...PULLING A COLD FRONT ACROSS GEORGIA LATE TONIGHT AND
SATURDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL MOVE
EAST...AFFECTING EXTREME NORTHWEST GEORGIA EARLY THIS EVENING THEN
SPREAD ACROSS THE REST OF NORTH AND AND CENTRAL GEORGIA LATER
TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS
AND LARGE HAIL. ISLOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

SPOTTERS GROUPS IN NORTH GEORGIA SHOULD ACTIVATE THEIR NETWORK AROUND
8 PM THIS EVENING. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPEMENTS AND BE READY
FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION AFTER MIDNIGHT.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.