Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 110, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1997, 4:05 PM CDT for Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 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
- Jun 16, 1997, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 162105 RRA TORHSV ALC095-162200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 405 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...MARSHALL COUNTY AT 403 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLY CONTAINING A TORNADO NEAR MORGAN CITY IN MORGAN COUNTY MOVING INTO WESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY NORTH OF OLEANDER. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURdE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lawrence | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 69 min |
| Jun 16, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Walker | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair, Shelby | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 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.