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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1997, 5:49 PM EST for Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 1, 1997, 5:49 PM EST (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1997, 6:50 PM EST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grady County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 6:00 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Beachton, GA | Dime size hail in south central Grady county just north of Beachton. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 4:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTLH 012248 RRA SVRTLH GAC131-012350- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 549 PM EST SAT NOV 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE FL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 650 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA ...GRADY COUNTY AT 547 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NWS TALLAHASSEE DOPPLER RADAR JUST NORTH OF CALVARY MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 Nov 1, 4:50 PM EST, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 4:50 PM EST, 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 450 PM EST SAT NOV 1 1997 APOLOGIZE FOR NOT GETTING A DISCUSSION OUT ANY EARLIER...BUT ITS BEEN BUSY HERE. FROM WHAT LTL MDL DATA IVE SEEN IT LOOKS LIKE BRUNT OF WX WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH ERN PORTIONS OF CWA LATE THIS EVENING/SHORTLY AFT MIDNITE. HAVE GLANCED AT MIAS SFD AND TEMPS AND POPS LOOK FINE. MOLLERE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 4:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lee, Worth | 48 min |
| Nov 1, 5:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Turner, Worth | 34 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.