Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 461, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1997, 5:25 PM EDT for Bartow County, Cobb County, Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 min. 4 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
- Sep 10, 1997, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1997, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bartow County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Paulding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 5:35 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Emerson, GA | The public reported ping pong ball sized hail. |
| Sep 10, 5:45 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Acworth, GA | Dime to quarter-size hail was reported in the Kennesaw and Acworth areas of north Cobb county. |
| Sep 10, 5:47 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Austell, GA | The public reported quarter sized hail in Austell in south Cobb county. |
| Sep 10, 6:15 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Dobbins Afb, GA | Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported by a Dobbins AFB weather station supervisor three miles south of the Air Force Base, as well as by the public in Smyrna. |
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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 554 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
780 WUUS1 KATL 102128 RRA SVRATL GAC015-067-223-102215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 525 PM EDT WED SEP 10 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN BARTOW COUNTY...COBB COUNTY...PAULDING COUNTY AT 523 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN BARTOW COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 34 min |
| Sep 10, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 36 min |
| Sep 10, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 34 min |
| Sep 10, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 48 min |
| Sep 10, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 28 min |
| Sep 10, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fulton | 47 min |
| Sep 10, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 27 min |
| Sep 10, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 26 min |
| Sep 10, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 32 min |
| Sep 10, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 34 min |
| Sep 10, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 43 min |
| Sep 10, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 25 min |
| Sep 10, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 28 min |
| Sep 10, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 46 min |
| Sep 10, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 28 min |
| Sep 10, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 39 min |
| Sep 10, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 32 min |
| Sep 10, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 43 min |
| Sep 10, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 26 min |
| Sep 10, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 39 min |
| Sep 10, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 25 min |
| Sep 10, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 26 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.