Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 435, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1997, 4:02 PM CDT for Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 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
- Jul 18, 1997, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morgan County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 838 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
970 WUUS1 KHSV 182101 RRA SVRHSV ALC103-182200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 402 PM CDT FRI JUL 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...WESTERN MORGAN COUNTY AT 400 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN WESTERN MORGAN COUNTY NEAR HARTSELLE AND DANVILLE. THE STORMS WERE SHOWING LITTLE IF ANY MOVEMENT. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Jul 18, 12:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-182300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1203 PM CDT FRI JUL 18 1997 HURRICANE DANNY WILL BE THE MAIN WEATHER THREAT TO ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. AS FOR TODAY...THERE WILL BE INCREASING CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA AS FEEDER BANDS ASSOCIATED WITH DANNY MOVE NORTHWARD. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN ONE-THIRD OF ALABAMA AS HURRICANES CAN PRODUCE ISOLATED TORNADOES IN THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE FEEDER BANDS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM DANNY WILL LIKELY BE FLOODING DUE TO ITS SLOW MOVEMENT. THE OFFICIAL TRACK FROM THE HURRICANE CENTER MOVES DANNY ONSHORE BETWEEN BILOXI MISSISSIPPI AND PENSACOLA FLORIDA LATE TONIGHT AND INTO SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DURING THE DAY SATURDAY. EMERGENCY MANAGERS WILL NEED TO CLOSELY MONITER THE TRACK OF DANNY AS APPROACHES THE GULF COAST.
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 12:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-182300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1203 PM CDT FRI JUL 18 1997 HURRICANE DANNY WILL BE THE MAIN WEATHER THREAT TO ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. AS FOR TODAY...THERE WILL BE INCREASING CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA AS FEEDER BANDS ASSOCIATED WITH DANNY MOVE NORTHWARD. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN ONE-THIRD OF ALABAMA AS HURRICANES CAN PRODUCE ISOLATED TORNADOES IN THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE FEEDER BANDS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM DANNY WILL LIKELY BE FLOODING DUE TO ITS SLOW MOVEMENT. THE OFFICIAL TRACK FROM THE HURRICANE CENTER MOVES DANNY ONSHORE BETWEEN BILOXI MISSISSIPPI AND PENSACOLA FLORIDA LATE TONIGHT AND INTO SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DURING THE DAY SATURDAY. EMERGENCY MANAGERS WILL NEED TO CLOSELY MONITER THE TRACK OF DANNY AS APPROACHES THE GULF COAST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 61 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.