Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 496, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 4:24 PM EDT for Coweta County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 3 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
- Oct 25, 1997, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coweta County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 4:50 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Hogansville, GA | The public reported quarter size hail on Blue Creek road. |
| Oct 25, 4:52 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 EG | Hogansville, GA | Troup county 911 reported 6 to 9 trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds near the intersection of Highway 54 and Blue Creek road. |
| Oct 25, 4:58 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Moreland, GA | The public reported quarter size hail. |
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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 989 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 252027 RRA SVRATL GAC077-285-252100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 424 PM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...COWETA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...NORTHEASTERN TROUP COUNTY AT 422 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOGANSVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING ACROSS GRANTVILLE BY 430 PM AND MORELAND BY 445 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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 25, 11:57 AM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-252200- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1157 AM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. THIS RISK AREA INCLUDES THE ATLANTA...ATHENS COLUMBUS...AND MACON AREAS. AN INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS IS DRAWING CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO NORTHWARD OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL ACT TO FOCUS STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AS IT DRIFTS SLOWLY SOUTHWARD. STORMS DEVELOPING WITH THE SYSTEM CAN PRODUCE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 60 MPH OR MORE. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NEED TO MONITOR THE SITUATION THIS AFTERNOON FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 12:01 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-252200- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1157 AM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. THIS RISK AREA INCLUDES THE ATLANTA...ATHENS COLUMBUS...AND MACON AREAS. AN INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS IS DRAWING CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO NORTHWARD OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL ACT TO FOCUS STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AS IT DRIFTS SLOWLY SOUTHWARD. STORMS DEVELOPING WITH THE SYSTEM CAN PRODUCE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 60 MPH OR MORE. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NEED TO MONITOR THE SITUATION THIS AFTERNOON FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 4:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 6:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 46 min |
| Oct 25, 7:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 7:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Hall | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 9:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 41 min |
| Oct 25, 10:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 54 min |
| Oct 25, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 30 min |
| Oct 25, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 30 min |
| Oct 25, 4:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 24 min |
| Oct 25, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette, Pike, Spalding | 30 min |
| Oct 25, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 43 min |
| Oct 25, 5:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pike | 24 min |
| Oct 25, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 26 min |
| Oct 25, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 36 min |
| Oct 25, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Oct 25, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock | 31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.