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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 13, 1997Macon County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1997, 5:25 PM EST for Macon County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 13, 1997, 5:25 PM EST (22:25 UTC)
Expired
Mar 13, 1997, 6:00 PM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Macon County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1997-03-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1997-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 160 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 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 132227 RRA
SVRATL
GAC193-132300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
525 PM EST THU MAR 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MACON COUNTY
 
AT 524 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
SOUTHERN MACON COUNTY 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ANDERSONVILLE MOVING NORTH
AT 35 MILES AN HOUR WHICH WILL TAKE THE STORM OVER FOUNTAINVILLE AT
530 PM AND IDEAL AT 540 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WI^ND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 5:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris50 min
Mar 13, 5:17 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCHarris, Talbot28 min
Mar 13, 5:42 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCMeriwether, Talbot48 min
Mar 13, 5:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMarion35 min
Mar 13, 6:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris27 min
Mar 13, 6:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTalbot50 min
Mar 13, 6:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPike27 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.