Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 8:29 PM EDT for Berrien County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 1997, 8:29 PM EDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berrien County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 2584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTLH 260027 RRA SVRTLH GAC019-260115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 829 PM EDT (729 PM EST) SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT (815 PM EST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA ...NORTHEASTERN BERRIEN COUNTY AT 826PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN AND NORTHEASTERN BERRIEN COUNTY JUST NORTH OF ALAPAHA MOVING EAST AT 30MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER... LARGE HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF YOU ARE IN T"HE PATH OF THIS STORM... GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 25, 3:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 3:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 325 PM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997 BUSY AGAIN THIS AFTN AS STRONG STORMS APPROACH THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE CWA. APPEARS CWA WL REMAIN IN WARM SECTOR THRU 48 HRS AS CLD FNT ONLY TO SE AL/WRN FL PANHANDLE BY END OF PERIOD. MODELS SIMILIAR IN UPR LVLS THRU 30 HRS IN TRACKING UPR CLOSED LOW EWD ACROSS TX PANHANDLE AND AR INTO WRN TN BY END OF PERIOD. AVN DEVIATES AND LIFTS LOW NEWD INTO GREAT LAKES REGION. FAVORAL JET INTERACTION LATE SUN SUGS ANOTHER ROUND SUN AFTN. 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 11:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 34 min |
| Oct 26, 12:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Miller | 43 min |
| Oct 26, 12:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun | 48 min |
| Oct 26, 12:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty | 50 min |
| Oct 26, 1:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 43 min |
| Oct 26, 2:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 39 min |
| Oct 26, 3:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Thomas | 34 min |
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.