Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 464
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 17, 1997, 1:15 PM CDT for 26 counties in Alabama; 95 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1997, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 121 counties
Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dale County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Atkinson County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Webster County, GA, White County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Muscogee | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 43 min |
| Jun 17, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 36 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 22 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
- 754 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 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.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 1997Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.