Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 513, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1997, 3:15 PM CST for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 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, 3:15 PM CST (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1997, 4:05 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barbour County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 012116 RRA SVRBHM ALC005-012205- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 315 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 405 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA ...BARBOUR COUNTY... AT 314 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR EUFALA AND WAS MOVING EAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. <<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 AREAS 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, 9:37 AM CST, 5 hours 38 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 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, 3:10 PM CST, 5 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, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 33 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
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.