Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 117, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1997, 7:57 PM CDT for Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tallapoosa County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 2362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1052 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
391 WFUS1 KBHM 170057 RRA TORBHM ALC123-170145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 757 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN TALLAPOOSA COUNTY AT 755 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR WIND CREEK IN SOUTHERN TALLAPOOSA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. SOME WIND DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE WIND CREEK ESTATES DURING THE PAST FEW MINUTES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY 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, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 66 min |
| Jun 17, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 66 min |
| Jun 17, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 51 min |
| Jun 17, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 47 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.