Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1997, 3:58 PM EDT for Lamar 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
- May 9, 1997, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1997, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lamar County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:10 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Barnesville, GA | Nickel to quarter sized hail reported. |
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 9, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 092000 RRA SVRATL GAC171-092030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 358 PM EDT FRI MAY 9 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...LAMAR COUNTY AT 357 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF BARNESVILLE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. 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. WRS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Meriwether, Troup | 41 min |
| May 9, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 45 min |
| May 9, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| May 9, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 51 min |
| May 9, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 35 min |
| May 9, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 37 min |
| May 9, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 41 min |
| May 9, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 38 min |
| May 9, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 37 min |
| May 9, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 26 min |
| May 9, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley | 38 min |
| May 9, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 27 min |
| May 9, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 25 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.