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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 291, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 13, 1997Houston County, Twiggs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 9:13 PM EDT for Houston County, Twiggs County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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 13, 1997, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Houston County, GA, Twiggs County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1182 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1182 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 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 140115 RRA
SVRATL
GAC153-289-140200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
913 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...HOUSTON COUNTY...TWIGGS COUNTY
 
AT 910 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF PERRY MOIVNG NORTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
HOUSTON COUNTY 911 WAS REPORTING TREES DOWNED IN THE CENTRAL PART OF
HOUSTON COUNTY.
 
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.
 
 
 
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 9:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens28 min
Jun 13, 10:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJohnson, Laurens42 min
Jun 13, 11:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd43 min
Jun 13, 11:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWalker, Whitfield48 min
Jun 13, 11:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Floyd, Polk41 min
Jun 14, 12:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGilmer, Murray51 min
Jun 14, 12:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWhitfield51 min
Jun 14, 12:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJohnson50 min
Jun 14, 2:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris, Troup41 min
Jun 14, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon29 min
Jun 14, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston26 min
Jun 14, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTaylor40 min
Jun 14, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford, Peach40 min
Jun 14, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston47 min
Jun 14, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSchley, Sumter30 min
Jun 14, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Pulaski33 min
Jun 14, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge33 min
Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair, Wheeler50 min
Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens50 min
Jun 14, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter, Webster31 min
Jun 14, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMontgomery, Toombs46 min
Jun 14, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks38 min
Jun 14, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHall34 min
Jun 14, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Jackson53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997Every 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.