Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1997, 12:31 PM CST for Marion County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 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
- Mar 5, 1997, 12:31 PM CST (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1997, 1:35 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 1:25 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Haleyville, AL |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 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 KBHM 051831 RRA SVRBHM ALC093-051935- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1231 PM CST WED MAR 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 135 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA ...MARION AT 1228 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR 9 MILES WEST OF SHOTSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... BEXAR BY 1239 PM CST SHOTSVILLE BY 1240 PM CST HAMILTON BY 1250 PM CST HACKLEBURG BY 103 PM CST FAIRVIEW BY 106 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING... PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DR>IVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 11:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 12:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 56 min |
| Mar 5, 1:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 50 min |
| Mar 5, 1:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone | 67 min |
| Mar 5, 1:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Morgan | 55 min |
| Mar 5, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 64 min |
| Mar 5, 1:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 2:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 47 min |
| Mar 5, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Marshall | 55 min |
| Mar 5, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 3:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 68 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.