Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1997, 1:44 PM CDT for Henry County, Alabama; Early 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
- May 15, 1997, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1997, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Henry County, AL, Early County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTLH 151845 RRA SVRTLH ALC067-GAC099-151930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 244 PM EDT (144 PM CDT) THU MAY 15 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT (230 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA ...SOUTHEASTERN HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA ...WESTERN EARLY COUNTY AT 241 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWESTERN HOUSTON COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF TUMBLETON MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO EARLY COUNTY, GEORGIA WITHIN TH6E NEXT 15 MINUTES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER... LARGE HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF YOU ARE IN THE 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 May 15, 1:53 AM CDT, 11 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 1:53 AM CDT, 11 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 245 AM EDT THU MAY 15 1997 PERSISTENT LARGE UPR TROF OVR ERN HALF OF COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE TO DOMINATE WX PATN OVR THE EAST THRU FRIDAY...ALTHO STG NRN STREAM S/WV PROGRESSING THRU TROF WILL MOV TROF AXIS FM GT LAKES/N CNTRL GULF COAST TO ERN SEABOARD BY END OF PD. HOWEVER...THIS S/WV WILL REMAIN WELL TO OUR N. OVR SERN STATES...MAIN FEATURE OF INTEREST IS CDFNT ANALYZED FM NRN LA TO NRN AL AT 06Z. THIS BNDRY WILL CONTINUE MOVG SEWD TODAY AND SHOULD BE DRAPED ACRS FL PNHNDL/S GA BY SUNSET. HOWEVER...CDFNT WILL NOT HAVE MUCH MOISTURE TO WORK WITH AND ETA MDL DOES NOT SHOW A TREMENDOUS AMT OF LLVL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. THESE FACTORS WOULD SUGGEST A FAIRLY LOW PRECIP THREAT...A VIEW SHARED BY FWC GUIDANCE. HOWEVER...WHAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN IS PSBL SEABRZ INTERACTION THIS AFTN...ESPECIALLY ACRS FL PNHNDL. PROGRESSIVE SEABRZ DVLPD YESTERDAY AFTN ON A DAY THAT DID NOT LOOK ESPECIALLY FAVORABLE IN MDL GUIDANCE. LATEST ETA MDL LOOKS A LITTLE BETTER W.R.T. SEABRZ TODAY. WITH THAT IN MIND...HAVE NO PROBLEM KEEPING PRECIP PROBABILITIES IN THE 20 TO 30 PCT RANGE AS CURRENTLY ADVERTISED AND AS SEEN IN FAN GUIDANCE. CDFNT SHOUL D MOV SE OF FCST AREA BY LATE THURSDAY EVE...AFTER WHICH HI PRES WILL BEGIN TO BUILD BACK INTO AREA. MOORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 46 min |
| May 15, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Cook | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.