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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 362, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 5, 1997Webster County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 3:24 PM EDT for Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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
Jul 5, 1997, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Webster County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 1997-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 813 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 1997-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 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
813 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 051924 RRA
SVRATL
GAC307-052015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
324 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...WEBSTER COUNTY
 
AT 320 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWESTERN
WEBSTER COUNTY NEAR WESTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
 
 
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
O>F YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 8:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTowns, White48 min
Jul 4, 8:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHall48 min
Jul 4, 8:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Jackson44 min
Jul 5, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSumter38 min
Jul 5, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly54 min
Jul 5, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston54 min
Jul 5, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTreutlen46 min
Jul 5, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJohnson44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.