Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 701
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 18, 1997, 12:45 PM CDT for Russell County, Alabama; 76 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1997, 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 77 counties
Russell County, AL, Appling County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Candler County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 51 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 2384 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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.