Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 387, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1997, 1:09 PM CDT for Chambers County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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 17, 1997, 1:09 PM CDT (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1997, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 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 18:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 6.2 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
- 754 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 171809 RRA SVRBHM ALC017-171900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 109 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...CHAMBERS COUNTY AT 108 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL 6 MILES WEST OF LANETT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... LANETT AROUND 110 PM CDT FREDONIA AROUND 115 PM CDT STANDING ROCK AROUND 127 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 QUI CKLY 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 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 16, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 35 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, 1:16 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.