Tornado Warning 10, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Jan 24, 1997, 4:31 PM CST (22:31 UTC)

Expired

Jan 24, 1997, 5:30 PM CST

In force

59 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Lawrence County, 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.

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TTAA00 KHSV 242231 RRA
TORHSV
ALC079-242330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
431 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
AT 430 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE IDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO OVER LAWRENCE COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF MOULTON...AND ANOTHER ONE POSS
LMOVING OUT OF NORTHERN WINSTON COUNTY INTO THE BANKHEAD NATIONAL FOREST.
 
THIS IS AN UPGRADE FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING.
 
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes in 1997

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.