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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 528, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 1, 1997Marion County, Talbot County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1997, 4:17 PM EST for Marion County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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: Nov 1, 1997, 4:17 PM EST (21:17 UTC)
Expired: Nov 1, 1997, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Marion County, GA, Talbot County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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
Nov 1, 4:45 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Box Spgs, GA	The public reported golfball size hail.
Nov 1, 4:50 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Five Pts, GA	The public reported dime 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 012118 RRA
SVRATL
GAC197-263-012200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
417 PM EST SAT NOV 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MARION COUNTY...TALBOT COUNTY
 
AT 415 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS. THE SEVERE STORM WILL CONTINUE
TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT GENEVA AND JUNCTION CITY
BETWEEN 430 AND 445 PM EST.
 
 
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.
 
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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 1, 9:52 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot	38 min
Nov 1, 10:18 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor	27 min
Nov 1, 4:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor	67 min
Nov 1, 5:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Talbot	55 min
Nov 1, 5:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Wilcox	68 min
Nov 1, 5:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley	40 min
Nov 1, 6:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Houston	45 min
Nov 1, 6:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair	64 min
Nov 1, 6:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Twiggs	50 min
Nov 1, 6:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	27 min
Nov 1, 6:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wheeler	46 min
Nov 1, 6:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson	38 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.