Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 764
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 25, 1997, 9:00 AM CDT for Cleburne County, Alabama; 51 counties in Georgia; Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 1997, 9:00 AM CDT (14:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Cleburne County, AL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Hart County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:02 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 54 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 989 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert, Cullman and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Marion and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 25, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Dale, Henry, Houston and 3 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 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.