Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 537, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1997, 6:44 PM EST for Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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, 6:44 PM EST (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1997, 7:30 PM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wheeler 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 012345 RRA SVRATL GAC309-020030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 644 PM EST SAT NOV 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...WHEELER COUNTY AT 642 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCRAE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. 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, 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, 6:52 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.