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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 275, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 27, 1997Douglas County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1997, 12:52 PM EDT for Douglas 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 27, 1997, 12:52 PM EDT (16:52 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1997, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Douglas County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:52 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

524 
WUUS1 KATL 271653 RRA
SVRATL
GAC097-271730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1252 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...DOUGLAS COUNTY
 
AT 1250 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER DOUGLASVILLE.
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 27, 11:20 AM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-272200-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1120 AM EDT TUE MAY 27 1997

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL
GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AND AHEAD
OF A FRONTAL BOUNDARY FROM ROME TO SAVANNAH WHICH WILL MOVE SLOWLY TO
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA DURING THE AFTERNOON.

THERE WILL BE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT AS
AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA. THE MOST LIKELY
THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. DIME TO
NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS OBSERVED THIS MORNING BETWEEN 9 AM AND 1030 AM.

SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR THE SITUATION.
KDF

Local storm report, May 27, 12:35 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1235 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 1997

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

915 AM     10NW ATLANTA              GA   .90 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    FULTON                         TIME 915 -920 AM

1000 AM    DUNWOODY-SANDY SPRINGS    GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    FULTON                         TIME 1000-1005 AM

1017 AM    NORCROSS                  GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    GWINNETT

950 AM     10N ATLANTA               GA   .90 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    FULTON

1000 AM    SANDY SPRINGS             GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    FULTON

1111 AM    COUNTY WIDE               GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    PEACH

1130 AM    PERRY                     GA   1.25 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    HOUSTON

1141 AM    NEWNAN                    GA   .90 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    COWETA

1136 AM    SARGENT                   GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    COWETA

1150 AM    NEWNAN                    GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    COWETA

1150 AM    NEWNAN                    GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    COWETA                         LASTED FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES

1145 AM    2N NEWNAN                 GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
5/27/97    COWETA

END

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, 12:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Pike, Upson	27 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, 12:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Upson	49 min
May 27, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	52 min

Nearby

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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.