Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1997, 6:08 PM CST for Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 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, 6:08 PM CST (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1997, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tallapoosa County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
241 WUUS1 KBHM 140008 RRA SVRBHM ALC123-140100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 608 PM CST THU MAR 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...TALLAPOOSA COUNTY AT 608 PM RADAR INDICATED A SHORT LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING THE SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 13, 5:05 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA
505 PM CST THU MAR 13 1997
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM COLUMBUS GA TORNADO
03/13/97 MUSCOGEE DAMAGE TO A HOMEQUARTERS
SHOPPING CENTER IN
NORTHERN COLUMBUS.
NUMEROUS FIRES REPORTED.
DEBRIS ALL ALONG
INTERSTATE 185 IN THE CITY
0525 PM COLUMBUS METRO ARPT GA TORNADO
03/13/97 MUSCOGEE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT THE
COLUMBUS, GA AIRPORT.
DAMAGE REPORTED TO THE
FRONT OF ONE OF THE
TERMINAL BUILDINGS.
DEBRIS ALL AROUND AIRPORT.
*ALL TIMES ARE REPORTED IN EASTERN STANDARD TIMELocal storm report, Mar 13, 5:08 PM CST, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA
505 PM CST THU MAR 13 1997
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM COLUMBUS GA TORNADO
03/13/97 MUSCOGEE DAMAGE TO A HOMEQUARTERS
SHOPPING CENTER IN
NORTHERN COLUMBUS.
NUMEROUS FIRES REPORTED.
DEBRIS ALL ALONG
INTERSTATE 185 IN THE CITY
0425 PM COLUMBUS METRO ARPT GA TORNADO
03/13/97 MUSCOGEE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT THE
COLUMBUS, GA AIRPORT.
DAMAGE REPORTED TO THE
FRONT OF ONE OF THE
V TERMINAL BUILDINGS.
DEBRIS ALL AROUND AIRPORT.
*ALL TIMES ARE REPORTED IN EASTERN STANDARD TIMELocal storm report, Mar 13, 5:09 PM CST, 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA
505 PM CST THU MAR 13 1997
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM COLUMBUS GA TORNADO
03/13/97 MUSCOGEE DAMAGE TO A HOMEQUARTERS
SHOPPING CENTER IN
NORTHERN COLUMBUS.
NUMEROUS FIRES REPORTED.
DEBRIS ALL ALONG
INTERSTATE 185 IN THE CITY
0525 PM COLUMBUS METRO ARPT GA TORNADO
03/13/97 MUSCOGEE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT THE
COLUMBUS, GA AIRPORT.
DAMAGE REPORTED TO THE
FRONT OF ONE OF THbE
TERMINAL BUILDINGS.
DEBRIS ALL AROUND AIRPORT.
*ALL TIMES ARE REPORTED IN EASTERN STANDARD TIMEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 7:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 44 min |
| Mar 13, 9:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.