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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 1, 1997Oconee County, Oglethorpe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1997, 6:17 PM EDT for Oconee County, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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: Jun 1, 1997, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 012216 RRA
SVRATL
GAC219-221-012300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
617 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTY...OGLETHORPE COUNTY
 
AT 610 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTY NEAR FARMINGTON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS WILL TAKE THE STORM JUST SOUTH OF WATKINSVILLE
AND INTO OGLETHORPE COUNTY BETWEEN 630 AND 645 PM. THE GREATEST THREAT
FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
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
Jun 1, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry	25 min
Jun 1, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley, Taylor	36 min
Jun 1, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilcox	33 min
Jun 1, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	49 min
Jun 1, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	38 min
Jun 1, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	35 min
Jun 1, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	46 min
Jun 1, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Putnam	46 min

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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.