Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 34
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 24, 1997, 11:00 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 1997, 11:00 PM CST (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 1997, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 81 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Hart County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, George County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Abbeville County, SC
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:04 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.
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, White | 27 min |
| Jan 24, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Paulding | 35 min |
| Jan 24, 11:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 31 min |
| Jan 24, 11:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 43 min |
| Jan 25, 12:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 51 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 966 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 494 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 542 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 11.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Marengo, Perry, Sumter, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jan 25, 10:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lake, Marion and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 25, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands and 8 more | 6 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.