Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 374, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 5:41 PM CDT for St. Clair County, Shelby County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 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 16, 1997, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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 16, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 162241 RRA SVRBHM ALC115-117-162345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 541 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SHELBY COUNTY ...ST. CLAIR COUNTY AT 539 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOODY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... STERRETT AROUND 546 PM CDT BRANCHVILLE AROUND 546 PM CDT ST. CLAIR SPRINGS AROUND 547 PM CDT ODENVILLE AROUND 549 PM CDT COOKS SPRINGS AROUND 551 PM CDT WOLF CREEK AROUND 554 PM CDT PELL CITY AROUND 602 PM CDT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK REFUGE FROM THE STORM IN A STRONG BUILDING. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD TAKE SHELTER. DAMAGING WIND... LARGE HAIL... VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE ALL LIKELY. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES OR OTHER ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS. THESE ATTRAC0T LIGHTNING. DO NOT 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
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 minute before
ALZ011-014-162330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 540 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 450: MARION AND WINSTON.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:41 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
ALZ011-014-162330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 540 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 450: MARION, AND WINSTON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lawrence | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 69 min |
| Jun 16, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Walker | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 49 min |
Nearby
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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.