Severe Thunderstorm Warning 470, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Aug 20, 1997, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)

Expired

Aug 20, 1997, 3:00 PM CDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Lowndes County, AL, Montgomery County, AL

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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TTAA00 KBHM 201916 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC085-101-202000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
215 PM CDT WED AUG 20 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...LOWNDES COUNTY...MONTGOMERY COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN LOWNDES COUNTY NEAR SAINT
CLAIR WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS AS IT MOVES
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH TOWARD THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY. THE GREATEST THREAT
FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH.
 
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

In the hours before

ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-210240-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
935 AM CDT WED AUG 20 1997

     A COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY INTO NORTHERN
ARKANSAS THIS MORNING AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD TODAY.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY OCCURRING FROM NORTH CENTRAL
ALABAMA INTO NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI.
     CLOUDS OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF ALABAMA HAVE CREATED THE
INGREDIENTS FOR A TEMPERATURE BOUNDARY ROUGHLY ALONG A EUTAW TO
ALEXANDER CITY LINE.  GOOD HEATING WILL OCCUR SOUTH OF THIS LINE WHILE
CLOUDS AND SHOWERS WILL INHIBIT HEATING NORTH OF THE LINE.
     ALL OF THIS COMBINED WITH AN INCREASING TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE IN
THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE WILL BE CONDUCIVE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND
TONIGHT.  WHILE THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR FURTHER
EAST FROM GEORGIA INTO THE CAROLINAS, ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS FROM THE SELMA AREA
EASTWARD THROUGH THE MONTGOMERY AREA TO THE EUFAULA AREA.
     THUS STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION ACROSS NORTH ALABAMA, GENERALLY
NORTH OF THE BIRMINGHAM AREA, IS NOT ANTICIPATED.  SPOTTER ACTIVATION
MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS
OF THE OUTLOOK AREA, GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM EUTAW TO ALEXANDER
CITY.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.