Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1997, 6:26 PM EST for Carroll County, Douglas County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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, 6:26 PM EST (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1997, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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.
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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 50 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 052326 RRA SVRATL GAC045-097-060000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 626 PM EST WED MAR 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CARROLL COUNTY...DOUGLAS COUNTY AT 625 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM MARIETTA THROUGH DOUGLASVILLE TO MT ZION MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. 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 WA RNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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
Local storm report, Mar 5, 5:19 PM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
519 PM EST WED MAR 5 1997
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM 1N ROME, GA GA WIND DAMAGE
3/5/97 FLOYDLocal storm report, Mar 5, 5:19 PM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
519 PM EST WED MAR 5 1997
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM 1N ROME, GA GA WIND DAMAGE
3/5/97 FLOYD TREES DOWNLocal storm report, Mar 5, 5:23 PM EST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
519 PM EST WED MAR 5 1997
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOC2ATION....
510 PM 1N ROME, GA GA WIND DAMAGE
3/5/97 FLOYD TREES DOWNLocal storm report, Mar 5, 5:24 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
519 PM EST WED MAR 5 1997
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM 1N ROME, GA GA WIND DAMAGE
3/5/97 FLOYDLocal storm report, Mar 5, 6:12 PM EST, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
612 PM EST WED MAR 5 1997
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
610 PM CANTON GA WIND DAMAGE
3/5/97 CHEROKEE TREES DOWN ALONG THE HIGHWAY
SEVERAL POWERLINES SNAPPED
AND A CAR OVER TURNED.
UNCONFIRMED ATTMLocal storm report, Mar 5, 6:18 PM EST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
612 PM EST WED MAR 5 1997
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
610 PM CANTON GA WIND DAMAGE
3/5/97 CHEROKEE TREES DOWN ALONG THE HIGHWAY
SEVERAL POWERLINES SNAPPED
AND A CAR OVER TURNED.
UNCONFIRMED ATTMThe 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, 6:03 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, 6:28 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.