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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 25, 1997Carroll County, Douglas County, Paulding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 25, 1997, 12:25 AM EST for Carroll County, Douglas County, Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 3 reports 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, 12:25 AM EST (05:25 UTC)
Expired: Jan 25, 1997, 1:00 AM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Paulding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:27 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
Jan 25, 12:35 AM EST	Hail 0.75	Winston, GA
Jan 25, 12:40 AM EST	Hail 0.75	Bowdon Jct, GA
Jan 25, 12:45 AM EST	Hail 0.75	Dallas, 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 55 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 250524 RRA
SVRATL
GAC045-097-223-250600-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1225 AM EST SAT JAN 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...CARROLL COUNTY...DOUGLAS COUNTY...PAULDING COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST SOUTH OF DALLAS TO JUST NORTHWEST OF CARROLLTON
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS WILL TAKE THE LINE THROUGH
DOUGLASVILLE BY 1245 AM.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The 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, 12:08 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall, White	27 min
Jan 25, 12:32 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	43 min

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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.