Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1997, 5:11 PM CST for Russell County, Alabama; Stewart County, Georgia. 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 29, 1997, 5:11 PM CST (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1997, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Russell County, AL, Stewart County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 292312 RRA SVRBHM ALC113-GAC259-300000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 511 PM CST SAT MAR 29 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST (700 PM EST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...RUSSELL IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...STEWART AT 509 PM CST (609 PM EST)...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COTTONTON MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... COTTONTON AROUND 518 PM CST FLORENCE AROUND 621 PM EST OMAHA AROUND 627 PM EST 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 28, 8:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 64 min |
| Mar 28, 10:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 58 min |
| Mar 28, 10:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 58 min |
| Mar 29, 12:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 32 min |
| Mar 29, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 12:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 65 min |
| Mar 29, 12:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 66 min |
| Mar 29, 1:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 1:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 65 min |
| Mar 29, 1:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 62 min |
| Mar 29, 1:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 35 min |
| Mar 29, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 20 min |
| Mar 29, 2:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 30 min |
| Mar 29, 2:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.