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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 319, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 17, 1997Meriwether County, Talbot County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1997, 2:57 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1997, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Talbot County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 17, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 171858 RRA
SVRATL
GAC199-263-171930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
257 PM EDT TUE JUN 17 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MERIWETHER COUNTY...TALBOT COUNTY
 
AT 2:55 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN HARRIS COUNTY
FROM FDR STATE PARK TO WAVERLY HALL MOVING NORTHEAST 35 MPH. THIS WILL
TAKE THE STORM TO WARM SPRINGS BY 3:05 PM AND TALBOTTON BY 3:10 PM.
 
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 STHRUCTURES 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 17, 12:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	43 min
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, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.