Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1997, 2:50 AM EST for Towns County, Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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, 2:50 AM EST (07:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1997, 3:15 AM EST
- In force
- 25 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 07:52 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, 3:00 AM EST | Tornado F1 | Hiawassee, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 12:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 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.
- 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 290751 RRA SVRATL GAC281-291-290815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 250 AM EST SAT MAR 29 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...NORTHERN TOWNS COUNTY...NORTHERN UNION COUNTY AT 250 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BLAIRSV LMOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE STORM NEAR HIAWASSEE BY 310 AM. 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 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, 12:11 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, 2:59 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.