Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 532, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 30, 1997, 12:35 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 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 30, 1997, 12:35 PM CST (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 30, 1997, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lauderdale 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 30, 11:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 301834 SVRHSV ALC077-301915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1235 PM CST SUN NOV 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...NORTHERN LAUDERDALE COUNTY AT 1230 PM...RADAR SHOWED AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM WITH DIME SIZE HAIL OVER HWY 157 NEAR THE TENNESSEE LINE...OR NEAR THREET. IT WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. &
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 30, 9:26 AM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-302300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 0930 AM CST SUN NOV 30 1997 A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE WEST TO EAST THROUGH NORTH ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON WHICH MAY PRODUCE SOME HAIL. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DIME SIZE OR LARGER HAIL. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BECOME NECESSARY LATER TODAY IN NORTH ALABAMA. FOR THE SOUTHERN ALABAMA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/INDEX.HTML ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 11:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 52 min |
| Nov 30, 12:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 54 min |
| Nov 30, 12:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison | 46 min |
| Nov 30, 12:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 46 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.