Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 365, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 2:50 PM CDT for Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 3:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Russell County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 141950 RRA SVRBHM ALC113-142020- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 250 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 320 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...RUSSELL COUNTY AT 248 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CRAWFORD MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... CRAWFORD AROUND 252 PM CDT SEALE AROUND 301 PM CDT FORT MITCHELL AROUND 317 PM CDT 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.
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 14, 1:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
109 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0105 PM LAFAYETTE AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/97 CHAMBERS REPORTED BY EMALocal storm report, Jun 14, 1:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
109 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0105 PM LAFAYETTE AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/97 CHAMBERS REPORTED BY EMAThe 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, 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, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.