Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 529, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1997, 4:53 PM EST for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 67 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
- Nov 1, 1997, 4:53 PM EST (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1997, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 4:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 012153 RRA SVRATL GAC269-012300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 453 PM EST SAT NOV 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...TAYLOR COUNTY AT 450 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTH OF BUENA VISTA MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL EFFECT BUTLER AROUND 530 PM. 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.
| 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, 4:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.