Tornado Warning 14, NWS Atlanta, GA

Issued

Oct 26, 1997, 6:56 AM EST (11:56 UTC)

Expired

Oct 26, 1997, 8:30 AM EST

In force

94 min

Issued by

NWS Atlanta, GA

Area

Whole counties

County Harris County, GA

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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TTAA00 KATL 261258 RRA
TORATL
GAC145-261330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
756 AM EST SUN OCT 26 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...HARRIS COUNTY
 
AT 755 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER
MULBERRY GROVE IN HARRIS COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
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.
 
IF YOU EXPERIENCE STORM DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES OR TREES...OR HAIL THE
SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER...PLEASE REPORT IT BY CALLING THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE AT 770-486-8535.
 
WRS

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes in 1997

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.