Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1997, 1:46 PM CST for Cullman 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, 1:46 PM CST (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1997, 2:50 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cullman County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Cullman, 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 051947 RRA SVRBHM ALC043-052050- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 146 PM CST WED MAR 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 250 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA ...CULLMAN AT 145 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR 8 MILES WEST OF JONES CHAPEL MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... JONES CHAPEL BY 156 PM CST LOGAN BY 159 PM CST WEST POINT BY 203 PM CST CULLMAN BY 212 PM CST FAIRVIEW BY 223 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.
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, 12:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 64 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, 1:49 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.