Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1997, 12:56 PM EDT for Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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
- May 27, 1997, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1997, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 1:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Thomaston, GA | One whole tree and several large limbs fell on power lines. A metal shelter attached to a nursing home was ripped off the building. Two nursing home employees were knocked down by the wind gust as it blew through the door. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 2642 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
542 WFUS1 KATL 271657 RRA TORATL GAC293-271745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1256 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...UPSON COUNTY AT 1255 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF THOMASTON MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. 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...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 33 min |
| May 27, 1:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson | 31 min |
| May 27, 2:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 15 min |
| May 27, 8:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 44 min |
| May 27, 8:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 34 min |
| May 27, 9:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 26 min |
| May 27, 9:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 36 min |
| May 27, 11:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 49 min |
| May 27, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 39 min |
| May 27, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 29 min |
| May 27, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 38 min |
| May 27, 12:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 27 min |
| May 27, 12:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 38 min |
| May 27, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 32 min |
| May 27, 12:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 34 min |
| May 27, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 38 min |
| May 27, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 52 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.