Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1997, 10:19 AM CST for Chambers County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 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
- Jan 8, 1997, 10:19 AM CST (16:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1997, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chambers County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 10:35 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Lafayette, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 10:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 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 081637 RRA SVRBHM ALC017-081700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1019 AM CST WED JAN 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...CHAMBERS COUNTY AT 1016 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF DADEVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED DIME SIZED HAIL IN DADEVILLE. THE STORM WILL MOVE NORTH OF LAFAYETTE TOWARD BUFFALO AND WHITE PLAINS. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A" STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 9:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Coosa, Elmore | 51 min |
| Jan 8, 9:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 69 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.