Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 5, 1997, 12:07 AM CST for Jackson County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 1997, 12:07 AM CST (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 1997, 1:15 AM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 12:30 AM CST | Tornado F0 | Stevenson, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
619 WUUS1 KHSV 050608 RRA SVRHSV ALC071-050715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1207 AM CST SUN JAN 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...JACKSON COUNTY AT 1205 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR SOMERVILLE IN EASTERN MORGAN THRU SOUTHEAST MADISON COUNTY TO NEAR HYTOP IN JACKSON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE IN MADISON AND MORGAN COUNTIES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 58 min |
| Jan 4, 9:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 48 min |
| Jan 4, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 61 min |
| Jan 4, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 66 min |
| Jan 4, 11:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 59 min |
| Jan 4, 11:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 68 min |
| Jan 4, 11:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 64 min |
| Jan 5, 12:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 56 min |
| Jan 5, 12:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 61 min |
| Jan 5, 12:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
| Jan 5, 1:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby | 40 min |
| Jan 5, 1:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Marshall | 2 hr |
| Jan 5, 1:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 47 min |
| Jan 5, 1:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 46 min |
| Jan 5, 1:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 53 min |
| Jan 5, 1:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jan 5, 1:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 52 min |
| Jan 5, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.