Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 9:01 AM CST for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 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 24, 1997, 9:01 AM CST (15:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barbour County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:15 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 24, 9:55 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Eufaula, 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 24, 6:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 380 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 241502 RRA SVRBHM ALC005-241600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 901 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA ...BARBOUR COUNTY AT 859 AM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTION OF BARBOUR COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 45 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH CLAYTON AROUND 930 AM... AND INTO THE EUFALA AREA AROUND 945 AM. DIME SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVED THROUGH TROY. DAMAGING WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS LINE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CH ANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 6:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 38 min |
| Jan 24, 6:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Lowndes | 53 min |
| Jan 24, 7:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 35 min |
| Jan 24, 7:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jan 24, 7:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 47 min |
| Jan 24, 8:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 8:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 58 min |
| Jan 24, 8:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 30 min |
| Jan 24, 8:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 57 min |
| Jan 24, 8:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 64 min |
| Jan 24, 8:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 61 min |
| Jan 24, 8:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 8:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 8:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 17 min |
| Jan 24, 9:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 56 min |
| Jan 24, 1:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 51 min |
| Jan 24, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 59 min |
| Jan 24, 2:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 2:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 64 min |
| Jan 24, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 43 min |
| Jan 24, 2:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 33 min |
| Jan 24, 2:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 61 min |
| Jan 24, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 42 min |
| Jan 24, 3:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 63 min |
| Jan 24, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 3:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 63 min |
| Jan 24, 3:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 58 min |
| Jan 24, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 41 min |
| Jan 24, 3:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 66 min |
| Jan 24, 3:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 33 min |
| Jan 24, 4:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 12 min |
| Jan 24, 4:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 61 min |
| Jan 24, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 42 min |
| Jan 24, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 52 min |
| Jan 24, 4:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 48 min |
| Jan 24, 4:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 59 min |
| Jan 24, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 67 min |
| Jan 24, 4:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Jan 24, 4:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Marshall | 72 min |
| Jan 24, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 51 min |
| Jan 24, 5:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Marshall | 56 min |
| Jan 24, 5:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 5:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 63 min |
| Jan 24, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 5:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 64 min |
| Jan 24, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 62 min |
| Jan 24, 5:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 43 min |
| Jan 24, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 41 min |
| Jan 24, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 41 min |
| Jan 24, 5:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 38 min |
| Jan 24, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 32 min |
| Jan 24, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 5:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 42 min |
| Jan 24, 5:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 53 min |
| Jan 24, 5:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 48 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.