Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 488, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 1997, 3:40 PM EDT for Wilcox County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Oct 24, 1997, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilcox County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 597 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 241943 RRA SVRATL GAC315-242015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 340 PM EDT FRI OCT 24 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 WILCOX COUNTY AT 339 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF OWENSBORO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT IN OR NEAR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY nCHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 24, 11:42 AM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
GAZ066>076-078>086-091>098-103>113-241945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1142 AM EDT FRI OCT 24 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY. THE RISK AREA EXTENDS SOUTH ALONG A LINE FROM LAGRANGE TO THOMASTON TO SWAINSBORO. A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD MOISTURE NORTH AND EAST TODAY. AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE RAPIDLY ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. STORMS DEVELOPING WITH THE SYSTEM CAN PRODUCE AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 60 MPH. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NEED TO MONITOR THE SITUATION FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
Special weather statement, Oct 24, 11:46 AM EDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
GAZ066>076-078>086-091>098-103>113-241945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1142 AM EDT FRI OCT 24 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY. THE RISK AREA EXTENDS SOUTH ALONG A LINE FROM LAGRANGE TO THOMASTON TO SWAINSBORO. A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD MOISTURE NORTH AND EAST TODAY. AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE RAPIDLY ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. STORMS DEVELOPING WITH THE SYSTEM CAN PRODUCE AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 60 MPH. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NEED TO MONITOR THED SITUATION FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 10:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 53 min |
| Oct 24, 2:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.