Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 489, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 1:08 PM CDT for Madison County, Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 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
- Oct 25, 1997, 1:08 PM CDT (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1546 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 251809 RRA SVRHSV ALC089-095-251915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 108 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...MADISON COUNTY...MARSHALL COUNTY AT 105 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW A MASSIVE SUPER CELL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED NEAR THE MORGAN...MADISON AND LIMESTONE COUNTY LINES. IT WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED 2 TO 3 INCH HAIL OVER PARTS OF CULLMAN COUNTY DURING THE LAST HOUR. A TORNADO WATCHr IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. &
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
Local storm report, Oct 25, 12:30 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1230 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1158 AM DOUBLE SPGS AL .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 WINSTON DIME SIZE HAIL IN DOUBLE
SPRINGS.
1203 PM ASHRIDGE AL 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 WINSTON QUARTER-SIZE HAIL AT ASH
RIDGE.
1222 PM ADDISON AL .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 WINSTON DIME SIZE HAIL IN ADDISON
AREA.
1225 PM ARLEY AL 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 WINSTON QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN
ARLEY.Local storm report, Oct 25, 12:32 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1230 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1158 AM DOUBLE SPGS AL .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 WINSTON DIME SIZE HAIL IN DOUBLE
SPRINGS.
1203 PM ASHRIDGE AL 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 WINSTON QUARTER-SIZE HAIL AT ASH
RIDGE.
1222 PM ADDISON AL .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 WINSTON DIME SIZE HAIL IN ADDIS
ON
AREA.
1225 PM ARLEY AL 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 WINSTON QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN
ARLEY.Local storm report, Oct 25, 12:50 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1250 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1240 PM JONES CHAPEL AL .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN DIME SIZE HAIL IN JONES
CHAPEL
1249 PM CULLMAN AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN GOLF-BALL SIZE HAIL AT
WEST POINT TO THE
NORTHWEST OF CITY OF
CULLMANLocal storm report, Oct 25, 12:52 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1250 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1240 PM JONES CHAPEL AL .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN DIME SIZE HAIL IN JONES
CHAPEL
1249 PM CULLMAN AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
10/258/97 CULLMAN GOLF-BALL SIZE HAIL AT
WEST POINT TO THE
NORTHWEST OF CITY OF
CULLMANLocal storm report, Oct 25, 1:06 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
106 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1254 PM CULLMAN AL .88 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT
JUNCTION OF HWY. 157 AND
I-65
0105 PM CULLMAN AL 2.75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AT
CULLMANLocal storm report, Oct 25, 1:07 PM CDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
106 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1254 PM CULLMAN AL .88 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT
JUNCTION OF HWY. 157 AND
I-65
0105 PM CULLMAN AL 2.75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 CULLMAN BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AT
CULLMANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 8:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 52 min |
| Oct 25, 10:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 42 min |
| Oct 25, 10:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 47 min |
| Oct 25, 10:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 61 min |
| Oct 25, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 11:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 60 min |
| Oct 25, 11:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 47 min |
| Oct 25, 12:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 65 min |
| Oct 25, 12:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 68 min |
| Oct 25, 1:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 51 min |
| Oct 25, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 52 min |
| Oct 25, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 46 min |
| Oct 25, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 69 min |
| Oct 25, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.