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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 13, 1997Stewart County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1997, 5:01 PM EST for Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
Mar 13, 1997, 5:01 PM EST (22:01 UTC)
Expired
Mar 13, 1997, 5:35 PM EST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Stewart County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1997-03-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1997-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 160 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

479 
WFUS1 KBHM 132201 RRA
TORBHM
GAC259-132235-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
401 PM CST THU MAR 13 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 535 PM EST (435 PM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

   ...STEWART
 
AT 501 PM EST...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR 5
MILES SOUTHWEST OF RICHARD MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
RICHARD                     AROUND 503 PM EST
BROOKLYN                    AROUND 511 PM EST
RENFROE                     AROUND 518 PM EST

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 4:54 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXMuscogee46 min
Mar 13, 5:23 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXChattahoochee32 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.