Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1997, 4:19 PM EST for Coffee County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 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 25, 1997, 4:19 PM EST (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 1997, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coffee County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 4:40 PM EST | Hail 1 | Nicholls, GA | |
| Mar 25, 4:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Douglas, 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 355 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.
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.