Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 800
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Nov 30, 1997, 1:30 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 30, 1997, 1:30 PM CST (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 30, 1997, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 74 counties
Cherokee County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Randolph 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, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas 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, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Swain County, NC, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 3:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 25 min |
| Nov 30, 3:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Rhea | 49 min |
| Nov 30, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 60 min |
| Nov 30, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bledsoe | 45 min |
| Nov 30, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 35 min |
| Nov 30, 4:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Rhea | 46 min |
| Nov 30, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Roane | 52 min |
| Nov 30, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 27 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 11:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Fayette and 13 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 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.