Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1997, 4:54 PM EDT for Brooks County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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
- Jun 2, 1997, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1997, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brooks County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1243 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTLH 022055 RRA SVRTLH GAC027-022145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 454 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA ...CENTRAL BROOKS COUNTY AT 455 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE THOMAS-BROOKS COUNTY LINE NEAR THE TOWN OF BOSTON MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED DIME SIZED HAIL DURING THE PAST HALF-HOUR IN THOMAS COUNTY. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A SAFE REFUGE FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. &&
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 Jun 2, 3:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 345 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997 NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT MDLS THIS AFTN...BUT FROM WHAT I DID SEE IT LOOKS LIKE SFC TROF AXIS ASSOC WITH CLOSED LOW WILL MOVE THRU THE FCST AREA LATE THIS EVE/ERLY MRNG HRS. LATEST VIS SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS TSTMS FIRING UP FROM SW-E CNTRL AL. BEST CHANCE FOR POPS WILL OCCUR THIS EVENING AS TROF APPROACHES AREA. TIME SECTIONS FROM ETA/NGM HAD BEST FORCING OCCURRING AT ABOUT 06Z FOR MIDDLE OF FA. I WOULDNT GO ANY HIGHER THAN ABOUT 50 PCNT POPS FOR WRN AREAS TONITE...AND 30-40 PCNT FOR ERN AREAS. FWC TEMPS LOOK OK. 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 42 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.