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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 28, 1997Murray County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 11:20 PM EST for Murray County, Georgia. It was in force for 10 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 28, 1997, 11:20 PM EST (04:20 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 11:30 PM EST
In force: 10 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Murray 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
Mar 28, 10:45 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 1292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 6.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 290419 RRA
SVRATL
GAC213-290430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1120 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...MURRAY COUNTY
 
AT 1120 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TWO MILES SOUTH
OF CHATSWORTH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 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 WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEAdTHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 11:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	34 min
Mar 29, 12:11 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Floyd	34 min
Mar 29, 12:22 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bartow	38 min
Mar 29, 12:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	29 min
Mar 29, 12:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin	21 min
Mar 29, 1:56 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	34 min
Mar 29, 2:20 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Union	25 min
Mar 29, 2:29 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	31 min
Mar 29, 2:45 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	30 min
Mar 29, 2:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns, Union	25 min
Mar 29, 2:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	31 min
Mar 29, 3:17 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	28 min
Mar 29, 3:45 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin	3 hr
Mar 29, 3:45 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Towns, Union, White	3 hr
Mar 29, 6:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Taylor	26 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.