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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 29, 1997Floyd County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1997, 2:59 AM EST for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 29, 1997, 2:59 AM EST (07:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 1997, 3:30 AM EST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Floyd 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 29, 12:45 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 290758 RRA
SVRATL
GAC115-290830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
259 AM EST SAT MAR 29 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...FLOYD COUNTY
 
AT 255 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME
WESTERN FLOYD COUNTY 5 MILES WEST OF COOSA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
THIS MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE STORM OVER ROME AROUND 320 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.

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 29, 1:42 AM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
241 AM EST SAT MAR 29 1997

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0059 AM    1N CASSVILLE              GA   WIND DAMAGE
3/29/97    BARTOW                         MOBILE HOME OVER TURNED
                                          HOUSE DAMAGED

Local storm report, Mar 29, 2:41 AM EST, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
241 AM EST SAT MAR 29 1997

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0059 AM    1N CASSVILLE              GA   WIND DAMAGE
3/29/97    BARTOW                         MOBILE HOME OVER TURNED
                                          HOUSE DAMAGED

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, 2:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns, Union	25 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997 Every 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.