Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 250, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1997, 6:07 PM EDT for Schley County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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
- May 9, 1997, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Schley County, GA
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, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 092209 RRA SVRATL GAC249-092245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 607 PM EDT FRI MAY 9 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SCHLEY COUNTY AT 606 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORD MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. 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. 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, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar | 32 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, 6:33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.