Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 1997
Tornado Watch 120
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 28, 1997, 11:45 PM CST for Cleburne County, Alabama; 45 counties in Georgia; Clay County, North Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1997, 11:45 PM CST (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1997, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 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, 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, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison 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, Clay County, NC
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 11:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 29 min |
| Mar 28, 11:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 21 min |
| Mar 29, 12:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 1:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 25 min |
| Mar 29, 1:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 1:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 30 min |
| Mar 29, 1:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 25 min |
| Mar 29, 1:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 2:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 2:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Towns, Union, White | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 64 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 9:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lincoln | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.