Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 512, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1997, 3:12 PM CST for Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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, 3:12 PM CST (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1997, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
316 WUUS1 KBHM 012113 RRA SVRBHM ALC087-012145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 312 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...MACON COUNTY... AT 311 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF TUSKEGEE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
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, 9:37 AM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-020100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 940 AM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO WEST ALABAMA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL BE LOCATED NEAR THE ALABAMA/GEORGIA STATE LINE BY SUNSET. THE AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION WILL BECOME MORE UNSTABLE AS SOUTH WINDS INCREASE DURING THE DAY. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS OUTLOOKED THE AREA FOR A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP TODAY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE ON STANDBY AND BE READY FOR SEVERE WEATHER ACTIVATION IF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR TORNADO WATCH IS ISSUED. FOR THE SOUTHERN ALABAMA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/INDEX.HTML ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 9:40 AM CST, 5 hours 32 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-020100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 940 AM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO WEST ALABAMA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL BE LOCATED NEAR THE ALABAMA/GEORGIA STATE LINE BY SUNSET. THE AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION WILL BECOME MORE UNSTABLE AS SOUTH WINDS INCREASE DURING THE DAY. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS OUTLOOKED THE AREA FOR A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP TODAY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE ON STANDBY AND BE READY FOR SEVERE WEATHER ACTIVATION IF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR TORNADO WATCH IS ISSUED. FOR THE SOUTHERN ALABAMA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/INDEX.HTML ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 3:10 PM CST, 2 minutes before
ALZ032-039-051-012230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 410 PM CDT SAT NOV 1 1997 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING WEST ALABAMA COUNTIES... HALE...MARENGO AND CHOCTAW SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED EAST OF THAT AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 10:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 46 min |
| Nov 1, 12:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 49 min |
| Nov 1, 12:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Nov 1, 12:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Nov 1, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 48 min |
| Nov 1, 1:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 46 min |
| Nov 1, 1:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 63 min |
| Nov 1, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 35 min |
| Nov 1, 1:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Limestone | 47 min |
| Nov 1, 2:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, St. Clair | 47 min |
| Nov 1, 2:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 32 min |
| Nov 1, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 45 min |
| Nov 1, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 35 min |
| Nov 1, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 50 min |
| Nov 1, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Montgomery | 49 min |
| Nov 1, 2:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 51 min |
| Nov 1, 2:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 49 min |
| Nov 1, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 50 min |
| Nov 1, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery, Pike | 48 min |
| Nov 1, 3:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 49 min |
| Nov 1, 3:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 min |
| Nov 1, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Montgomery | 32 min |
| Nov 1, 4:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 49 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.