Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 67, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 1997, 6:31 PM CDT for Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 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
- Apr 28, 1997, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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
- 263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 282331 RRA TORHSV ALC095-290030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 631 PM CDT MON APR 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...MARSHALL COUNTY AT 630 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR ALBERTVILLE IN MARSHALL COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 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 FURNITURE. 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. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 60 min |
| Apr 28, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 64 min |
| Apr 28, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 64 min |
| Apr 28, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 58 min |
| Apr 28, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 69 min |
| Apr 28, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 6:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Etowah | 2 hr |
| Apr 28, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 60 min |
| Apr 28, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 66 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.