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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 360, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 14, 1997Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 12:03 AM CDT for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 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 14, 1997, 12:03 AM CDT (05:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 752 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KHSV 140503 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC077-140600-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1203 AM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY
 
AT MIDNIGHT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR KILLEN AND CENTER STAR.
 
THIS THUNDERSORMS WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAT AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR
COLBERT AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES.
 
 
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, 2 hours 1 minute 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 59 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 13, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert, Franklin	60 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.