Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 428
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 1997, 12:30 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Florida; 49 counties in Georgia; 25 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1997, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 75 counties
Hamilton County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth 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, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:33 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Jeff Davis | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 61 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Nassau | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Brooks, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Colquitt and 24 more | 5 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.