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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 362, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 14, 1997Morgan County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 12:55 AM CDT for Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 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, 12:55 AM CDT (05:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1997, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Morgan County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.

485 
WUUS1 KHSV 140554 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC059-079-103-140700-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1255 AM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY...MORGAN COUNTY
 
AT 1252 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE
INDICATED POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY
NEAR RUSSELLVILLE AND IN LAWRENCE COUNTY NEAR CADDO.
 
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MILES
AN HOUR AND CONTINUE TO INDICATE THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE AND
DAMAGING HAIL.
 
 
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
DONT 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 53 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, 2 hours 51 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, 12:03 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, 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.