Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1997, 2:06 AM CST for Lawrence County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 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
- Feb 27, 1997, 2:06 AM CST (08:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1997, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lawrence County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 12:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 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 KHSV 270806 SVRHSV ALC079-270915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 206 AM CST THU FEB 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 203 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR LEIGHTON IN COLBERT COUNTY TO NEAR PHIL CAMPBELL IN SOUTHEAST FRANKLIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY BY 215 AM CST. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARNINGS CONTINUE FOR COLBERT COUNTY UNTIL 300 AM CST...AND FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY UNTIL 230 AM CST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND 4OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 1:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 57 min |
| Feb 27, 1:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 1:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 58 min |
| Feb 27, 1:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 64 min |
| Feb 27, 2:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 60 min |
| Feb 27, 2:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Morgan | 62 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.