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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 349, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 13, 1997Franklin County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 2:35 PM CDT for Franklin County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 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
Jun 13, 1997, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 1997-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 593 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
593 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 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.

000 
TTAA00 KHSV 131935 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC059-132030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
235 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 233 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN FRANKLIN COUNTY JUST TO THE EAST OF HODGES.
 
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES PER HOUR.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
ANDN DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLawrence56 min
Jun 13, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale, Limestone62 min
Jun 13, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison67 min
Jun 13, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson66 min
Jun 13, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale48 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.