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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 5, 1997Baldwin County, Hancock County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 5, 1997, 7:38 AM EST for Baldwin County, Hancock County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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: Jan 5, 1997, 7:38 AM EST (12:38 UTC)
Expired: Jan 5, 1997, 8:15 AM EST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Baldwin County, GA, Hancock 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
Jan 5, 6:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -189 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 051239
SVRATL
GAC009-141-051315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
738 AM EST SUN JAN 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...BALDWIN COUNTY
 
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...HANCOCK COUNTY
 
AT 735 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1O MILES WEST OF
MILLEDGEVILLE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 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
Jan 5, 1:49 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade	26 min
Jan 5, 2:37 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	38 min
Jan 5, 3:03 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	27 min
Jan 5, 3:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	36 min
Jan 5, 4:31 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton	29 min
Jan 5, 5:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	36 min
Jan 5, 5:37 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Spalding	38 min
Jan 5, 5:58 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Newton	32 min
Jan 5, 7:49 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Houston, Macon	26 min
Jan 5, 8:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Pulaski	35 min
Jan 5, 8:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge	26 min
Jan 5, 8:51 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	54 min
Jan 5, 9:03 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge	27 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.