Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1997, 7:58 PM EST for Bibb County, Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports 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 30, 1997, 7:58 PM EST (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1997, 8:30 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bibb County, GA, Peach County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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 30, 8:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Macon, GA | |
| Mar 30, 8:16 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Valley, 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 30, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2251 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
340 WUUS1 KATL 310101 SVRATL GAC021-225-310130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 758 PM EST SUN MAR 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...BIBB COUNTY...PEACH COUNTY AT 757 PM EST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO BIBB AND PEACH COUNTIES FROM LIZELLA TO FORT VALLEY. MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS MACON AROUND 805 PM. THIS STORM DOWNED TREES EARLIER IN CRAWFORD COUNTY. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. ...CORRECTION FOR THE TIME...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 20 min |
| Mar 30, 8:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Wilkinson | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 8:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 53 min |
| Mar 30, 9:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs | 64 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.