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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 380, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 16, 1997Lee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 8:19 PM CDT for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1997, 9:05 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1596 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1596 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
4.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 6:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
ALZ015>017-170000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
620 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NUMMER 450: WALKER...CULLMAN AND BLOUNT.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
ALZ015>017-170000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
620 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NUMMER 450: WALKER.&..CULLMAN AND BLOUNT.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
ALZ024-170030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
635 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NUMMER 450: JEFFERSON.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
ALZ024-170030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
635 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NUMMER 450: JEFFERSON.x
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 8:01 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
ALZ022-023-025-026-170200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
801 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 450 HAS NOW EXPIRED FOR ALL REMAINING
COUNTIES ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 8:03 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
ALZ022-023-025-026-170200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
801 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 450 HAS NOW EXPIRED FOR ALL REMAINING
COUNTIES ACRROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes48 min
Jun 16, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXTallapoosa32 min
Jun 16, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes, Montgomery50 min
Jun 16, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXTallapoosa48 min
Jun 16, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore33 min
Jun 16, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers35 min
Jun 17, 5:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert, Lauderdale66 min
Jun 17, 5:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin66 min
Jun 17, 12:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson46 min
Jun 17, 12:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLee, Russell31 min
Jun 17, 1:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers51 min
Jun 17, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSt. Clair49 min
Jun 17, 1:28 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXSt. Clair32 min
Jun 17, 1:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTalladega47 min
Jun 17, 1:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMuscogee50 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.