Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1997, 12:03 PM EDT for Lamar County, Pike County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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 27, 1997, 12:03 PM EDT (16:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1997, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lamar County, GA, Pike County, GA, Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 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 27, 12:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Thomaston, GA | |
| May 27, 12:15 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Zebulon, 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 2642 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
276 WUUS1 KATL 271604 RRA SVRATL GAC171-231-293-271630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1203 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...LAMAR COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY...UPSON COUNTY AT NOON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PIEDMONT MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 33 min |
| May 27, 1:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson | 31 min |
| May 27, 2:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 15 min |
| May 27, 8:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 44 min |
| May 27, 8:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 34 min |
| May 27, 9:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 26 min |
| May 27, 9:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 36 min |
| May 27, 11:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 49 min |
| May 27, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 39 min |
| May 27, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 29 min |
| May 27, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 38 min |
| May 27, 12:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 38 min |
| May 27, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 32 min |
| May 27, 12:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 34 min |
| May 27, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 38 min |
| May 27, 12:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Upson | 49 min |
| May 27, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 52 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.