Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 2, 1997, 7:14 PM EDT for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. 4 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
- May 2, 1997, 7:14 PM EDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1997, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton, GA | Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees throughout the county. Power outages were also reported as several power lines snapped as limbs fell on them. |
| May 2, 7:40 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Chickamauga, GA | The tornado touched down just southwest of Chickamauga in the Ridgecrest Acre mobile home park. Touchdown was noted to be at the intersection of Georgia Highway 136 and 193. Three mobile homes were completely destroyed, and a total of 28 homes/ mobile homes |
| May 2, 7:50 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Rossville, GA | |
| May 2, 7:59 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Flintstone, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 2081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 43 min |
| May 2, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 54 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.