Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1997, 2:39 PM CST for Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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
- Mar 13, 1997, 2:39 PM CST (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1997, 3:25 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 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 132038 RRA SVRBHM ALC087-132125- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 239 PM CST THU MAR 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 325 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...MACON AT 237 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SHORTER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... SHORTER AROUND 246 PM CST LA PLACE AROUND 247 PM CST MILSTEAD AROUND 252 PM CST FRANKLIN AROUND 300 PM CST NOTASULGA AROUND 315 PM CST IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK REFUGE FROM THE STORM IN A STRONG BUILDING. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD TAKE SHELTER. DAMAGING WIND... LARGE HAIL... VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE ALL LIKELY. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES OR OTHER ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS. THESE ATTRACT LIGHTNING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Mar 13, 2:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon, Montgomery | 48 min |
| Mar 13, 2:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 49 min |
| Mar 13, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 52 min |
| Mar 13, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 49 min |
| Mar 13, 3:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 49 min |
| Mar 13, 3:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 49 min |
| Mar 13, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 31 min |
| Mar 13, 5:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore, Macon | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.