Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 248
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 3, 1997, 12:15 PM EDT for 20 counties in Florida; 36 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1997, 12:15 PM EDT (16:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Duval County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Madison County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Union County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks | 46 min |
| May 3, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 59 min |
| May 3, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval, Nassau | 42 min |
| May 3, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 50 min |
| May 3, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 42 min |
| May 3, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 54 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
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 3, 7:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 6 hr |
| May 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll and 54 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga and 44 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 72 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 5 more | 4 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.