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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 396, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 17, 1997Dooly County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1997, 4:33 PM EDT for Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1997, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Dooly County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2283 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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.

042 
WUUS1 KATL 172035 RRA
SVRATL
GAC093-172100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
433 PM EDT THU JUL 17 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...DOOLY COUNTY
 
AT 435 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR UNADILLA. THIS STORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DONT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER AND DAMAGING
WINDS...CALL (770)486-8535.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHaralson, Paulding46 min
Jul 16, 9:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper36 min
Jul 16, 10:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWashington28 min
Jul 16, 11:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts30 min
Jul 16, 11:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta35 min
Jul 17, 12:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Henry25 min
Jul 17, 12:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe34 min
Jul 17, 5:06 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFCCoweta, Fayette2 hr
Jul 17, 2:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas37 min
Jul 17, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens38 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.