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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 282, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 1, 1997Forsyth County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1997, 7:07 PM EDT for Forsyth 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: Jun 1, 1997, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1997, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Forsyth County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 012306 RRA
SVRATL
GAC117-012345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
707 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...FORSYTH COUNTY
 
AT 705 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORSYTH IN CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH WHICH WILL TAKE THE STORM NEAR JULIETTE.
 
 
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.

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

Local storm report, Jun 1, 5:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
539 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997

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

420 PM     HENRY                     GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
6/1/97     HENRY

Local storm report, Jun 1, 5:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
539 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997

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

420 PM     HENRY                     GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
6/1/97     HENRY

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, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oconee, Oglethorpe	43 min
Jun 1, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	49 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

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.