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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 350, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 13, 1997Lawrence County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 2:49 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 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
Jun 13, 1997, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lawrence County, AL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 3:04 PM CDTHail 0.75Wheeler, ALThree-quarter inch hail was reported near Wheeler.

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 nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.

684 
WUUS1 KHSV 131949 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC079-132045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
249 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
AT 246 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS IN LAWRENCE COUNTY NAR HATTON AND TOWN CREEK.
 
 
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MILES PER
HOUR.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DONT 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.