Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1997, 12:11 AM EST for Bartow County, Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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 29, 1997, 12:11 AM EST (05:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1997, 12:45 AM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:13 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 29, 12:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassville, 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 290511 RRA SVRATL GAC015-115-290545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1211 AM EST SAT MAR 29 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...BARTOW COUNTY...EASTERN FLOYD COUNTY AT 1207 AM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF ROME MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 11:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 10 min |
| Mar 28, 11:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.