Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1997, 6:04 PM EST for Macon County, Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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, 6:04 PM EST (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1997, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Macon County, GA, Taylor County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 292304 RRA SVRATL GAC193-269-292330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 604 PM EST SAT MAR 29 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MACON COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN TAYLOR COUNTY AT 600 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH SCHLEY COUNTY MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENpCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.