Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 5, 1997Tift County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 9:22 AM EDT for Tift County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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: Jul 5, 1997, 9:22 AM EDT (13:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 1997, 10:15 AM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Tift County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:25 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
Jul 5, 9:25 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Tifton, GA

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 nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 051322 RRA
SVRTLH
GAC277-051415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
922 AM EDT SAT JUL 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...TIFT COUNTY
 
AT 915 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF TIFT
COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS MAINLY THE
SOUTHERN HALF OF TIFT COUNTY AND MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND
DIME SIZED HAIL...MAINLY FROM TIFTON TO OMEGA AND ELDORADO.
 
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 Jul 5, 8:31 AM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 8:31 AM EDT, 51 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
830 AM EDT SAT JUL 5 1997

GIVEN WIDESPREAD CNVTV ACTIVITY SEEN ON KTLH RADAR ALREADY THIS
MORNING...IT SEEMS READILY APPARENT THAT TSRA ARE NOT GOING TO
COOPERATE AND WAIT UNTIL THIS AFTN ACRS FL BIG BEND. EXPC OUTFLOW
BNDRYS TO DRIFT SEWD INTO FL BIG BEND AND TRIGGER NMRS TSRA IN
EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACRS NW FL WITH LI OF MINUS 13 AND CAPE OF
6400 J/KG UNMODIFIED. YOUCH! WILL IMMEDIATELY UPDATE NW FL ZONES FOR
LIKELY TSRA. WILL NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE SVRL PULSE SVR TSRA AS WELL.

MOORE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 9:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt	52 min
Jul 5, 9:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	55 min
Jul 5, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Randolph	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.