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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 395, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 17, 1997Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1997, 3:37 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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 17, 1997, 3:37 PM EDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Laurens County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 2083 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 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 171938 RRA
SVRATL
GAC175-172015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
337 PM EDT THU JUL 17 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 CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHERN LAURENS COUNTY
 
AT 339 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CEDAR
GROVE...NEA4RLY STATIONARY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Paulding	46 min
Jul 16, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	36 min
Jul 16, 10:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	28 min
Jul 16, 11:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts	30 min
Jul 16, 11:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	35 min
Jul 17, 12:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry	25 min
Jul 17, 12:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	34 min
Jul 17, 5:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	2 hr
Jul 17, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Douglas	37 min
Jul 17, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	27 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.