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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 14, 1997Russell County, Alabama; Stewart County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 3:28 PM CDT for Russell County, Alabama; Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 1997, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Russell County, AL, Stewart County, GA

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 4:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Ft Mitchell, AL	A few trees were down in the Fort Mitchell area.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 142028 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC113-GAC259-142115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
328 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT (515 PM EDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA

   ...RUSSELL COUNTY

IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

   ...STEWART COUNTY
 
AT 326 PM CDT (426 PM EDT)...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
BETWEEN FORT MITCHELL AND PITTSVIEW IN RUSSELL COUNTY ALABAMA.  THE
STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN
STEWART COUNTY GEORGIA BETWEEN 430 AND 500 PM EDT.

LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
 
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, 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, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1997 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.