Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 9:15 PM CST for Henry County, Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 1997, 9:15 PM CST (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 9:18 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Dothan, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 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
- 1148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTLH 250316 RRA SVRTLH ALC067-069-250400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1015 PM EST (915 PM CST) FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EST (1000 PM CST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA ...HENRY COUNTY...HOUSTON COUNTY AT 912 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF HOUSTON AND HENRY COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE IN GENEVA COUNTY EARLIER. DOTHAN AND HEADLIN ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 24, 7:55 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 7:55 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 840 PM EST FRI JAN 24 1997 88-D LIGHTING UP AS STRONG STORMS MOVE TOWARDS CWA FROM WESTERN FL PANHANDLE. TLH 00Z SOUNDING SHOWS FAVORABLE zWINDS AND LI OF -4 FOR CONVCN. LIKELY POPS TONITE WELL JUSTIFIED. #13
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.