Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 358, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 9:59 PM CDT for Cleburne County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 10:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cleburne County, AL
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 140300 RRA SVRBHM ALC029-140335- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 959 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1035 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...CLEBURNE COUNTY AT 958 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF HEFLIN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND VERY STRONG WINDS. 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 YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Lawrence | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 4:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Walker | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.