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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 14, 1997Hall County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 6:11 PM EDT for Hall County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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
Jun 14, 1997, 6:11 PM EDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Hall County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 6:35 PM EDTHail 0.9Gainesville, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1780 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1780 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 142211 RRA
SVRATL
GAC139-142245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
611 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...HALL COUNTY
 
AT 610 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHERN PART OF LAKE SIDNEY LANIER 5 MILES WEST
OF GAINESVILLE. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...LIGHTNING POSES A SERIOUS DANGER.
STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES, UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. IF BOATING OR
SWIMMING...GET TO LAND QUICKLY AND FIND SHELTER. IF IN THE OPEN FIND
A LOW SPOT AWAY FROM TREES, FENCES, AND POLES.
 
IF YOU EXPERIENCE STORM DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES OR TREES...OR HAIL THE
SIZE OF DIMES ORv 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 9:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston, Twiggs47 min
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, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Jackson53 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.