Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1997, 9:43 AM EDT for Harris County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- May 3, 1997, 9:43 AM EDT (13:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1997, 10:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harris County, GA, Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:44 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 10:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville, GA | Several trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds; power lines were snapped as well. |
| May 3, 10:01 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodland, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 1144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 031344 RRA SVRATL GAC145-263-031415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 943 AM EDT SAT MAY 3 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN HARRIS COUNTY...TALBOT COUNTY AT 942 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MIDLAND IN MUSCOGEE COUNTY MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER TALBOTTON AT 1000 AM. 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. BOATERS, GOLFERS, AND OTHERS INVOLVED IN OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 37 min |
| May 2, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 34 min |
| May 2, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 48 min |
| May 2, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 46 min |
| May 2, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 46 min |
| May 2, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 34 min |
| May 2, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 21 min |
| May 2, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Murray | 25 min |
| May 2, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 52 min |
| May 2, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 52 min |
| May 2, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 28 min |
| May 2, 10:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 32 min |
| May 2, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 45 min |
| May 2, 10:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 26 min |
| May 2, 10:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 41 min |
| May 2, 11:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Lumpkin | 37 min |
| May 2, 11:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 41 min |
| May 2, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, White | 30 min |
| May 3, 1:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 3 hr |
| May 3, 1:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 3 hr |
| May 3, 1:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 3 hr |
| May 3, 1:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 45 min |
| May 3, 1:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 39 min |
| May 3, 2:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 39 min |
| May 3, 2:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 32 min |
| May 3, 2:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Polk | 42 min |
| May 3, 2:42 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 33 min |
| May 3, 3:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 30 min |
| May 3, 3:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 31 min |
| May 3, 5:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 40 min |
| May 3, 6:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 37 min |
| May 3, 6:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 28 min |
| May 3, 6:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 35 min |
| May 3, 7:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 33 min |
| May 3, 7:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 33 min |
| May 3, 7:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 42 min |
| May 3, 7:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 44 min |
| May 3, 8:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee | 51 min |
| May 3, 8:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 43 min |
| May 3, 8:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Troup | 51 min |
| May 3, 8:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 54 min |
| May 3, 8:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 54 min |
| May 3, 8:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 53 min |
| May 3, 9:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Newton | 47 min |
| May 3, 10:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Monroe | 36 min |
| May 3, 10:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 38 min |
| May 3, 10:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Taylor | 37 min |
| May 3, 10:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Twiggs | 53 min |
| May 3, 11:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 33 min |
| May 3, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 39 min |
| May 3, 12:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 29 min |
| May 3, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 37 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.