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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 246

May 3, 1997Russell County, Alabama; 78 counties in Georgia; 25 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 3, 1997, 7:30 AM CDT for Russell County, Alabama; 78 counties in Georgia; 25 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 1997, 7:30 AM CDT (12:30 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 1997, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 104 counties

Russell County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Screven County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 7:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	54 min
May 3, 7:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	54 min
May 3, 7:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Newton	53 min
May 3, 7:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	47 min
May 3, 8:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Newton	47 min
May 3, 8:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	46 min
May 3, 8:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Talbot	32 min
May 3, 9:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Jones, Monroe	36 min
May 3, 9:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Peach	38 min
May 3, 9:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Schley, Taylor	37 min
May 3, 9:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Twiggs	53 min
May 3, 10:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	33 min
May 3, 10:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Washington	39 min
May 3, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	29 min
May 3, 11:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Barnwell	55 min
May 3, 11:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins	42 min
May 3, 11:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	53 min
May 3, 12:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale	52 min
May 3, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	69 min
May 3, 12:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Dorchester	65 min

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 8.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 29 more	6 hr
May 3, 12:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Lamar, Pickens	6 hr
May 3, 2:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 29 more	6 hr
May 3, 6:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 23 more	6 hr
May 3, 11:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 30 more	6 hr
May 3, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 5 more	4 hr
May 3, 7:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Kershaw, Lee and 2 more	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1997 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 1997 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.