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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 5, 1997Towns County, Union County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1997, 6:03 PM EST for Towns County, Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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: Mar 5, 1997, 6:03 PM EST (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 1997, 6:30 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Towns County, GA, Union County, GA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 052302 RRA
SVRATL
GAC281-291-052330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
603 PM EST WED MAR 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...TOWNS COUNTY...UNION COUNTY
 
AT 6 PM EST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
BLAIRSVILLE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 60 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, 5:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	35 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.