Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 441, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1997, 10:53 PM EDT for Quitman County, Georgia; Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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 27, 1997, 10:53 PM EDT (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1997, 11:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, AL, Quitman County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:57 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 2430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1303 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 280254 RRA SVRBHM ALC005-GAC239-280340- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 953 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1040 PM CDT (1140 PM EDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA ...BARBOUR COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA ...QUITMAN COUNTY AT 949 PM CDT (1049 PM EDT)...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM LUMPKIN TO PHENIX CITY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN PORTION OF QUITMAN AND THE EASTERN PORTION OF BARBOUR COUNTIES FIRST AND THEN SPREAD OVER THE REST OF THE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. 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 ATTRACT LIGHTNING. DO NOT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 63 min |
| Jul 27, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Stewart | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 59 min |
| Jul 28, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 31 min |
| Jul 28, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 48 min |
| Jul 28, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 40 min |
| Jul 28, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Jackson | 65 min |
| Jul 28, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 52 min |
| Jul 28, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 65 min |
| Jul 28, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 51 min |
| Jul 28, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 47 min |
| Jul 28, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 49 min |
| Jul 28, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 64 min |
| Jul 28, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton | 40 min |
| Jul 28, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 54 min |
| Jul 28, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997Severe 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.