Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1997, 2:47 PM CST for Lowndes County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 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
- Apr 5, 1997, 2:47 PM CST (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 1997, 3:50 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lowndes County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 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 052047 RRA SVRBHM ALC085-052150- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 247 PM CST SAT APR 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 350 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...LOWNDES AT 245 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR 6 MILES WEST OF FOSTORIA MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... FOSTORIA AROUND 245 PM CST BRAGGS AROUND 246 PM CST COLLIRENE AROUND 248 PM CST MOUNT WILLING AROUND 253 PM CST GORDONSVILLE AROUND 254 PM CST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR6 HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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
Special weather statement, Apr 5, 2:16 PM CST, 31 minutes before
ALZ011>016-022-023-030>032-039-052050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 216 PM CST SAT APR 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST ALABAMA... MARION...WINSTON...CULLMAN...LAMAR...FAYETTE...WALKER...PICKENS... TUSCALOOSA...SUMTER...GREENE...HALE...MARENGO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 11:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 11:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 11:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 2:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 44 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.