Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 429
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 1997, 1:45 PM CDT for 29 counties in Alabama; 30 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1997, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Baker County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Turner County, GA, Webster County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley, Sumter | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lee | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 1780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 43 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 33 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.