Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 8
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 5, 1997, 6:15 AM EST for 32 counties in Georgia; Scotland County, North Carolina; 20 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 1997, 6:15 AM EST (11:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 1997, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 53 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Scotland County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Union County, SC
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 7:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock | 37 min |
| Jan 5, 7:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Macon | 26 min |
| Jan 5, 8:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge | 26 min |
| Jan 5, 8:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 54 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 5, 12:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 5 hr |
| Jan 5, 3:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga and 52 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 5, 12:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Madison, Mitchell, Yancey | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 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.