Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 25, 1997, 12:08 AM EST for Hall County, White County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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
- Jan 25, 1997, 12:08 AM EST (05:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 1997, 12:35 AM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hall County, GA, White County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:10 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 12:20 AM EST | Hail 0.75 | Cleveland, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 12:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 250508 RRA SVRATL GAC139-311-250545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1208 AM EST SAT JAN 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1235 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...HALL COUNTY...SOUTHERN WHITE COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF CLERMONT MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE GENERALLY ALONG THE HALL/WHITE COUNTY LINE THROUGH 1230 AM. THIS STORM PRODUCED QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN DAHLONEGA AROUDN 1150 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 WA~TER COVERS THE ROAD. &
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, Jan 24, 9:23 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1025 PM EDT FRI JAN 24 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
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9:17 PM DALLAS GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 PAULDING REPORTED BY PAULDING 911Local storm report, Jan 24, 9:25 PM EST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1025 PM EDT FRI JAN 24 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
9:17 PM DALLAS GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 PAULDING REPORTED BY PAULDING 911
9:15 PM ACWORTH GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 COBB REPORTED BY SHERIFFLocal storm report, Jan 24, 9:55 PM EST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1025 PM EDT FRI JAN 24 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
9:17 PM DALLAS GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 PAULDING REPORTED BY PAULDING 911
9:15 PM ACWORTH GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 COBB REPORTED BY SHERIFFLocal storm report, Jan 24, 10:31 PM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1025 PM EDT FRI JAN 24 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
9:17 PM DALLAS GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 PAULDING REPORTED BY PAULDING 911
9:15 PM ACWORTH GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 COBB REPORTED BY SHERIFF
9:30 PM 9N WOODSTOCK GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 CHEROKEE REPORTED BY PD IN LITTLE
RIVERLocal storm report, Jan 24, 11:06 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1025 PM EDT FRI JAN 24 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
9:17 PM DALLAS GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 PAULDING REPORTED BY PAULDING 911
9:15 PM ACWORTH GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 COBB REPORTED BY SHERIFF
9:30 PM 9N WOODSTOCK GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 CHEROKEE REPORTED BY PD IN LITTLE
RIVER
1030 PM ROME 0 GA 0.75 inch hail
1/24/97 FLOYD REPORTED BY 911The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 9:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 45 min |
| Jan 24, 9:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 36 min |
| Jan 24, 9:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Fulton | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 10:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 27 min |
| Jan 24, 10:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 53 min |
| Jan 24, 11:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 36 min |
| Jan 24, 11:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson | 23 min |
| Jan 24, 11:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 31 min |
| Jan 25, 12:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Paulding | 35 min |
| Jan 25, 12:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 43 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.