Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 546, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 21, 1997, 9:06 PM EST for Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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 21, 1997, 9:06 PM EST (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 21, 1997, 9:50 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumter 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 21, 8:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 562 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 896 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 220206 RRA SVRATL GAC261-220250- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 906 PM EST FRI NOV 21 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SUMTER COUNTY AT 904 PM EST RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CONCORD...ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF AMERICUS. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 35 MPH. 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 DON'T 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 WzEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING 770-486-8535.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 21, 7:46 PM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
GAZ001>166-221000- STATE FORECAST FOR GEORGIA...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 740 PM EST FRI NOV 21 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 1 AM EST... .TONIGHT...RAIN LIKELY AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS NORTH AND CENTRAL...A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. LOWS IN THE 40S NORTH TO MIDDLE 60S EXTREME SOUTH. .SATURDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS...MAINLY IN THE MORNING NORTH AND WEST. HIGHS IN THE 60S NORTH TO UPPER 70S SOUTH. .SATURDAY NIGHT...DECREASING CLOUDS NORTH AND CENTRAL...CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS SOUTH. LOWS IN THE 40S NORTH TO MIDDLE 50S EXTREME SOUTH. .SUNDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY EXCEPT DECREASING CLOUDS IN THE SOUTH. HIGHS IN THE 60S EXCEPT UPPER 50S MOUNTAINS. .SUNDAY NIGHT...FAIR SKIES. LOWS IN THE 30S...EXCEPT 20S EXTREME NORTH. .EXTENDED FORECAST... .MONDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE 50S...EXCEPT 40S EXTREME NORTH AND AROUND 60 EXTREME SOUTH. .TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY DAYS AND FAIR NIGHTS. LOWS IN THE 20S AND 30S. HIGHS IN THE 50S TUESDAY...AND IN THE 50S NORTH 60S SOUTH WEDNESDAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 8:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 3 hr |
| Nov 21, 8:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Webster | 43 min |
| Nov 21, 8:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion | 33 min |
| Nov 21, 9:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Schley | 29 min |
| Nov 21, 9:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 33 min |
| Nov 21, 9:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Webster | 31 min |
| Nov 21, 11:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 30 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.