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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 16, 1988Shelby County, Talladega County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1988, 1:05 PM CDT for Shelby County, Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1988, 1:05 PM CDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1988, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Shelby County, AL, Talladega 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

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 297 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1988-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 543 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1988-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
543 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-19 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
May 16, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton, Shelby57 min
May 16, 2:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby39 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.