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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 500, NWS Atlanta, GA

October 25, 1997Spalding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 5:34 PM EDT for Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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 25, 1997, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired
Oct 25, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Spalding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 23 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1997-10-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 989 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1997-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 162 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 252140 RRA
SVRATL
GAC255-252200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
534 PM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...SPALDING COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
SPALDING COUNTY 2 MILES SOUTH OF GRIFFIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES
AN HOUR.
 
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 CHANGING 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 25, 4:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa35 min
Oct 25, 6:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee46 min
Oct 25, 7:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCForsyth50 min
Oct 25, 7:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett, Hall35 min
Oct 25, 9:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade, Walker41 min
Oct 25, 10:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGordon, Pickens54 min
Oct 25, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard30 min
Oct 25, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Troup36 min
Oct 25, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether30 min
Oct 25, 4:51 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCMeriwether24 min
Oct 25, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette, Pike, Spalding30 min
Oct 25, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp43 min
Oct 25, 5:21 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCPike24 min
Oct 25, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Jasper45 min
Oct 25, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPutnam36 min
Oct 25, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin26 min
Oct 25, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Hancock31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.