Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 359, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 13, 1997Colbert County, Franklin County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 11:30 PM CDT for Colbert County, Franklin County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 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, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1997, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Colbert County, AL, Franklin County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1867 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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 140430 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC033-059-140530-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1130 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...COLBERT COUNTY...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 1127 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN COLBERT COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF ALSBORO
AND IN WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY NEAR PLEASANT SITE AND HALTOWN.
 
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
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
DON'T 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

Local storm report, Jun 13, 10:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1002 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0902 PM    TALLADEGA                 AL   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/97   TALLADEGA                      QUARTER TO BASEBALL SIZE
                                          HAIL REPORTED

Local storm report, Jun 13, 10:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1002 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0902 PM *   TALLADEGA                 AL   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/97   TALLADEGA                      QUARTER TO BASEBALL SIZE
                                          HAIL REPORTED

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, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	36 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1997 Every 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.