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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 495, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 1, 1997Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1997, 9:34 AM EST for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
Nov 1, 1997, 9:34 AM EST (14:34 UTC)
Expired
Nov 1, 1997, 10:10 AM EST
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Muscogee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1997-11-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1997-11-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 011435 RRA
SVRBHM
GAC215-011510-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
834 AM CST SAT NOV 1 1997


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1010 AM EST (910 AM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

   ...MUSCOGEE COUNTY...

AT 933 AM EST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
PRODUCING LARGE HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF UPATOI MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
UPATOI                      AROUND 931 AM EST...


<<CALL TO ACTION>>
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
ARdEAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, Nov 1, 5:30 AM EST, 4 hours 4 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-011400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
445 AM CST SAT NOV 1 1997

THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND
CENTRAL ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY.  AN UPPER LEVEL
IMPULSE WILL PASS OVER THE STATE TODAY.  AT THE SURFACE...A COLD FRONT
WILL SWEEP ACROSS ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO WESTERN GEORGIA
THIS EVENING.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF WEST AND CENTRAL
ALABAMA THIS MORNING.  STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES
THROUGHOUT THE DAY.  A GREATER POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS
ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PARTS OF ALABAMA THROUGH THE DAY.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 5:45 AM EST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-011400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
445 AM CST SAT NOV 1 1997

THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND
CENTRAL ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY.  AN UPPER LEVEL
IMPULSE WILL PASS OVER THE STATE TODAY.  AT THE SURFACE...A COLD FRONT
WILL SWEEP ACROSS ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO WESTERN GEORGIA
THIS EVENING.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF WEST AND CENTRAL
ALABAMA THIS MORNING.  STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES
THROUGHOUT THE DAY.  A GREATER POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS
ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PARTS OF ALABAMA THROUGH THE DAY.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 1, 3:55 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXMuscogee50 min
Nov 1, 4:18 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXChattahoochee32 min
Nov 1, 4:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMuscogee47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.