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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 379, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 15, 1997Meriwether County, Pike County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1997, 7:47 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Pike County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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: Jul 15, 1997, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 1997, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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
Jul 15, 8:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Concord, GA	Several trees were knocked down on Wood Road near Georgia Highway 18.

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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 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 152349 RRA
SVRATL
GAC199-231-160015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
747 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY GA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

   ...MERIWETHER COUNTY
   ...PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 744 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
BETWEEN WOODBURY AND HOLLONVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO
THE EAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH.
 
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.

IF YOU EXPERIENCE STORM DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES 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
Jul 15, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Twiggs	47 min
Jul 15, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	31 min
Jul 15, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	50 min
Jul 15, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	49 min
Jul 15, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe	47 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.