Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 1997
Tornado Watch 786
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 1, 1997, 3:30 PM CST for Henry County, Houston County, Russell County, Alabama; 13 counties in Florida; 61 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 1, 1997, 3:30 PM CST (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1997, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 77 counties
Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Russell County, AL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Atkinson County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Grady County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 3:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 min |
| Nov 1, 3:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 67 min |
| Nov 1, 4:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 55 min |
| Nov 1, 4:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Turner, Worth | 34 min |
| Nov 1, 4:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 68 min |
| Nov 1, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Schley | 40 min |
| Nov 1, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 61 min |
| Nov 1, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston | 45 min |
| Nov 1, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair | 64 min |
| Nov 1, 5:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Jackson | 46 min |
| Nov 1, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 50 min |
| Nov 1, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 27 min |
| Nov 1, 5:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wheeler | 46 min |
| Nov 1, 5:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson | 38 min |
| Nov 1, 6:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 42 min |
| Nov 1, 6:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 31 min |
| Nov 1, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 45 min |
| Nov 1, 7:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 32 min |
| Nov 1, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 45 min |
| Nov 1, 7:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 44 min |
| Nov 1, 8:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 1, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 31 more | 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.