Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1997, 5:42 PM EST for Meriwether County, Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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 13, 1997, 5:42 PM EST (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1997, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Meriwether County, GA, Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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, 5:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Hill, GA | |
| Mar 13, 6:05 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester, 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 132244 RRA TORATL GAC199-263-132330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 542 PM EST THU MAR 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MERIWETHER COUNTY...TALBOT COUNTY AT 537 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN NORTHWEST TALBOT COUNTY... NEAR SHILOH. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE WARM SPRINGS AND WOODBURY. 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 hBASEMENT 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. 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, 5:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 28 min |
| Mar 13, 5:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 35 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 |
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.