Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 7
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 5, 1997, 2:00 AM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 1997, 2:00 AM CST (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 1997, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 101 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Perry County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Hart County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Union County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Buncombe County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Anderson County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 2:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 27 min |
| Jan 5, 2:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 36 min |
| Jan 5, 2:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 69 min |
| Jan 5, 2:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon, Swain | 64 min |
| Jan 5, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 45 min |
| Jan 5, 3:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood | 46 min |
| Jan 5, 3:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton | 29 min |
| Jan 5, 3:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 43 min |
| Jan 5, 4:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 25 min |
| Jan 5, 4:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| Jan 5, 4:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 38 min |
| Jan 5, 4:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Newton | 32 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Cherokee, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 5, 5:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Columbia, Crawford and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 4, 11:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Madison, Mitchell, Yancey | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 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.