Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1997, 5:17 PM EST for Harris County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. 3 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 13, 1997, 5:17 PM EST (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1997, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harris County, GA, Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 13, 5:30 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Cataula, GA | |
| Mar 13, 5:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton, GA | |
| Mar 13, 5:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Hill, 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 132219 RRA TORATL GAC145-263-132245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 517 PM EST THU MAR 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...HARRIS COUNTY...TALBOT COUNTY AT 515 PM EST A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR IN SOUTHEAST HARRIS COUNTY...5 MILES EAST OF ELLERSLIE. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TOWNS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE WAVERLY HALL...SHILOH AND THE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT STATE PARK. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. THIS REPLACES THE SEVEREV THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HARRIS COUNTY. KM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 5:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 35 min |
| Mar 13, 5:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 48 min |
| Mar 13, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 35 min |
| Mar 13, 6:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 27 min |
| Mar 13, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 27 min |
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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.