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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 30, 1997Autauga County, Dallas County, Lowndes County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1997, 3:18 PM CST for Autauga County, Dallas County, Lowndes County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 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 30, 1997, 3:18 PM CST (21:18 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 1997, 4:15 PM CST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Autauga County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Lowndes County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1997-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1997-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 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.

086 
WUUS1 KBHM 302119 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC001-047-085-302215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
318 PM CST SUN MAR 30 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...AUTAUGA COUNTY...DALLAS COUNTY...LOWNDES COUNTY
 
AT 315 PM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST DALLAS
COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO AUTAUGA
AND LOWNDES COUNTIES. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS STORM WILL BE HIGH WINDS
AND HAIL.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DONT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 3:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore, Montgomery64 min
Mar 30, 4:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes59 min
Mar 30, 4:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery44 min
Mar 30, 5:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock, Macon47 min
Mar 30, 5:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRussell36 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.