Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1997, 5:08 PM CST for Bullock County, Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1997, 5:08 PM CST (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1997, 5:55 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bullock County, AL, Macon County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 5:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Tuskegee, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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 30, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 302309 RRA SVRBHM ALC011-087-302355- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 508 PM CST SUN MAR 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 555 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...BULLOCK ...MACON AT 506 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HECTOR MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... HECTOR AROUND 515 PM CST CHESSON AROUND 517 PM CST FITZPATRICK AROUND 518 PM CST HARDAWAY AROUND 522 PM CST SARDIS AROUND 526 PM CST UNION SPRINGS AROUND 530 PM CST TUSKEGEE AROUND 530 PM CST IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... EXTREMELY INTENSE LIGHTNING IS ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS... STAY AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING THE TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. STAY OUT OF YOUR BATHTUB OR SHOWER BECAUSE LIGHTNING CAN TRAVEL THROUGH WATER PIPES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 4:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 59 min |
| Mar 30, 4:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.