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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 13, 1997Lee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1997, 3:41 PM CST for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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, 3:41 PM CST (21:41 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 1997, 4:30 PM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Lee County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 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 KBHM 132141 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC081-132230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
341 PM CST THU MAR 13 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA

   ...LEE
 
AT 340 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER
RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOLD RIDGE MOVING
NORTH AT 35 MPH. HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM DURING THE PAST 15
MINUTES OVER THE AUBURN AREA.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
GOLD RIDGE                  AROUND 343 PM CST
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 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 DONT
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, 2:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	46 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, 3:49 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.