Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 382, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 8:25 PM CDT for Chambers County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chambers County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 170125 RRA SVRBHM ALC017-170200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 825 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN CHAMBERS COUNTY AT 823 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN CHAMBERS COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOHTEAST AT 15 TO 25 MPH. 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
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 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, 2 hours 4 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 50 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 49 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, 24 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, 22 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 66 min |
| Jun 17, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 66 min |
| Jun 17, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 51 min |
| Jun 17, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 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.