Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1997, 4:53 PM EDT for Berrien County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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
- Jun 1, 1997, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1997, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berrien County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 4:55 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Nashville, GA | Large hail fell across eastern parts of the county according to the sheriffs office. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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
- 710 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
699 WUUS1 KTLH 012053 RRA SVRTLH GAC019-012130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 453 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA ...BERRIEN COUNTY AT 4:50 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER BERRIEN COUNTY ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NASHVILLE. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS PRIMARILY THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY. LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Mitchell | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty | 51 min |
| Jun 1, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Irwin | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.