Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 497, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 4:45 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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, 4:52 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Luthersville, GA | The public reported dime to quarter size hail in and around Luthersville. |
| Oct 25, 4:58 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 EG | Luthersville, GA | The public reported thunderstorm winds knocked down three pine trees and twisted the top off of an oak tree in Luthersville. In Primrose, large trees were knocked down onto a church and another building. The steeple was also blown off the church. In Greenvill |
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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 41 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.
229 WUUS1 KATL 252048 RRA SVRATL GAC199-252115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 445 PM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...NORTHERN MERIWETHER COUNTY AT 442 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF GRANTVILLE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE LUTHERSVILLE AREA BY 455 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 DONT 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.
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, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Troup | 36 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.