Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 24, 1997, 6:38 PM CST for Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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
- Jan 24, 1997, 6:38 PM CST (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Talladega County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 24, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 966 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 494 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 542 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 11.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 250039 RRA TORBHM ALC121-250115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 638 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...NORTHERN TALLADEGA COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...WITH A RADAR INDICATED TORNADO...WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN TALLADEGA COUNTY BETWEEN 645 AND 715 PM. THIS STORM WAS TRACKING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL PASS BETWEEN TALLADEGA AND LINCOLN AROUND 700 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROURND 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 65 min |
| Jan 24, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 61 min |
| Jan 24, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 43 min |
| Jan 24, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 52 min |
| Jan 24, 6:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 6:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 43 min |
| Jan 24, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 51 min |
| Jan 24, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 51 min |
| Jan 24, 6:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 61 min |
| Jan 24, 7:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 66 min |
| Jan 24, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 66 min |
| Jan 24, 7:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 64 min |
| Jan 24, 7:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison | 59 min |
| Jan 24, 7:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 7:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 53 min |
| Jan 24, 7:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 7:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 59 min |
| Jan 24, 7:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 52 min |
| Jan 24, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 65 min |
| Jan 24, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 59 min |
| Jan 24, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 59 min |
| Jan 24, 8:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 36 min |
| Jan 24, 8:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 63 min |
| Jan 24, 8:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 51 min |
| Jan 24, 8:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Jan 24, 8:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 57 min |
| Jan 24, 8:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 40 min |
| Jan 24, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 8:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 69 min |
| Jan 24, 8:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby | 69 min |
| Jan 24, 8:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 69 min |
| Jan 24, 8:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 31 min |
| Jan 24, 9:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, St. Clair | 27 min |
| Jan 24, 9:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 48 min |
| Jan 24, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 30 min |
| Jan 24, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Hale, Shelby | 64 min |
| Jan 24, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 64 min |
| Jan 24, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, St. Clair, Talladega | 64 min |
| Jan 24, 10:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Jan 24, 10:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 67 min |
| Jan 24, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 45 min |
| Jan 24, 11:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 11:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 31 min |
| Jan 24, 11:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 28 min |
| Jan 24, 11:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 54 min |
| Jan 25, 12:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.