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Tornado Warning 142, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 8:52 PM CDT for Montgomery 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
- Oct 25, 1997, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 9:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 925 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 260155 RRA TORBHM ALC101-260240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 852 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 940 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY... AT 851 PM CDT... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO NEAR THE TOWN OF RAMER. THIS STORM W AS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. <<CALL TO ACTION>> IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT... DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 57 min |
| Oct 25, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 57 min |
| Oct 25, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 61 min |
| Oct 25, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 55 min |
| Oct 25, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 36 min |
| Oct 25, 11:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 47 min |
| Oct 26, 12:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 32 min |
| Oct 26, 1:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Oct 26, 1:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 66 min |
| Oct 26, 1:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Etowah | 47 min |
| Oct 26, 3:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 46 min |
| Oct 26, 3:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 63 min |
| Oct 26, 3:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 45 min |
| Oct 26, 3:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Oct 26, 4:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Etowah, St. Clair | 4 hr |
| Oct 26, 4:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 5 hr |
| Oct 26, 4:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 52 min |
| Oct 26, 4:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 47 min |
| Oct 26, 4:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 50 min |
| Oct 26, 4:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 48 min |
| Oct 26, 4:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Oct 26, 5:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 49 min |
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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.