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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 25, 1988Marengo County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1988, 4:58 AM CDT for Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 1988, 4:58 AM CDT (09:58 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 1988, 5:45 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Marengo County, AL

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 00:00Z on 1988-04-25Temperature 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, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 00:00Z on 1988-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 12:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson47 min
Apr 25, 12:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWalker37 min
Apr 25, 1:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCullman39 min
Apr 25, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSt. Clair42 min
Apr 25, 1:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCalhoun, Talladega49 min
Apr 25, 2:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCleburne42 min
Apr 25, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCleburne28 min
Apr 25, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSt. Clair43 min
Apr 25, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXEtowah58 min
Apr 25, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTalladega18 min
Apr 25, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCalhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne28 min
Apr 25, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCalhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne32 min
Apr 25, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRandolph42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.