Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 316, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1997, 12:17 PM EDT for Bartow County, Cherokee 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 17, 1997, 12:17 PM EDT (16:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1997, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bartow County, GA, Cherokee County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:21 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 754 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
490 WUUS1 KATL 171619 RRA SVRATL GAC015-057-171700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1217 PM EDT TUE JUN 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...BARTOW COUNTY...CHEROKEE COUNTY AT 12:15 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EMERSON MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WILL BRING THIS STORM NEAR CANTON AROUND 12:45 PM. 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.
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, Jun 17, 11:20 AM EDT, 57 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-172115- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1120 AM EDT TUE JUN 17 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GERGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE CENTER AND ASSOCIATED FRONTAL SYSTEM OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TODAY AND TONIGHT. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS EXISTS OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTHEAST U.S. AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ASSOCIATED WITH A LOW LEVEL JET HAS PRODUCED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI TO NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND INTO NORTH GEORGIA THIS MORNING. AFTERNOON HEATING WILL FURTHER DESTABLIZE THE ATMOSPHERE OVER GEORGIA AS OUTFLOW BOUNDRIES FROM THIS MORNINGS ACTVIVITY...AND THE LOW LEVEL JET INTERACT LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING PRODUCING THE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE ACTIVATION IS NEEDED. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR THE SITUATION BY BEING ALERT TO FURTHER STATEMENTS...SHORT TERM FORECASTS...AS WELL AS ANY WATCHES OR WARNINGS ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. 99
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 11:24 AM EDT, 53 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-172115- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1120 AM EDT TUE JUN 17 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GERGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE CENTER AND ASSOCIATED FRONTAL SYSTEM OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TODAY AND TONIGHT. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS EXISTS OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTHEAST U.S. AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ASSOCIATED WITH A LOW LEVEL JET HAS PRODUCED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI TO NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND INTO NORTH GEORGIA THIS MORNING. AFTERNOON HEATING WILL FURTHER DESTABLIZE THE ATMOSPHERE OVER GEORGIA AS OUTFLOW BOUNDRIES FROM THIS MORNINGS ACTVIVITY...AND THE LOW LEVEL JET INTERACT LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING PRODUCING THE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE ACTIVATION IS NEEDED. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR THE SITUATION BY BEING ALERT TO FURTHER STATEMENTS...SHORT TERM FORECASTS...AS WELL AS ANY WATCHES OR WARNINGS ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. 99
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett | 41 min |
| Jun 17, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 43 min |
| Jun 17, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.