Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1997, 5:40 PM EST for Cherokee County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 5, 1997, 5:40 PM EST (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1997, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, GA, Pickens County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodstock, GA |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 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 052239 RRA SVRATL GAC057-227-052315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 540 PM EST WED MAR 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CHEROKEE COUNTY...PICKENS COUNTY AT 538 EST RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM NEAR RANGER IN GORDON COUNTY TO CASEVILLE IN BARTOW COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 25 min |
| Mar 5, 6:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 6:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 34 min |
| Mar 5, 6:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 6:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 27 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.