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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 14, 1996Barbour County, Bullock County, Russell County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1996, 8:48 PM CDT for Barbour County, Bullock County, Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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: Apr 14, 1996, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Russell County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 14, 9:05 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Seale, 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 14, 8:10 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA
810 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0527 PM    EUTAW                     AL   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   GREENE

0539 PM    PICKENSVILLE              AL   TORNADO
04/14/96   PICKENS                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0615 PM    ALICEVILLE                AL   POSSIBLE TORNADO
04/14/96   PICKENS                        HEAVY STRUCTURAL DAMGE
                                          TO HOUSES AND NURSING
                                          HOMES.

0640 PM    HOLT JCT                  AL   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   TUSCALOOSA

0645 PM    BRIERFIELD                AL   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   BIBB

0710 PM    CONCORD                   AL   60 MPH TSTM GUST
04/14/96   JEFFERSON                      LARGE TREE DOWNED

0721 PM    BIRMINGHAM                AL   60 MPH TSTM GUST
04/14/96   JEFFERSON                      60+ WIND GUST.  METAL BLEW
                                          OFF BUILDING

0721 PM    HOOVER                    AL   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/96   JEFFERSON                      POWER LINES DOWN

0730 PM    BIRMINGHAM                AL   67 MPH TSTM GUST
04/14/96   JEFFERSON                      REPORT FROM WBRC
                                          TELEVISION STATION.

0730 PM    BIRMINGHAM ARPT           AL   58 MPH TSTM GUST
04/14/96   JEFFERSON                      REPORT FROM BHM OBSERVER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Montgomery	38 min
Apr 14, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	27 min
Apr 14, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Tallapoosa	64 min
Apr 14, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	40 min
Apr 14, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Talladega	44 min
Apr 14, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Lee	47 min
Apr 14, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne, Randolph	54 min
Apr 14, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	54 min
Apr 14, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Lee	37 min
Apr 14, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Lee	36 min
Apr 14, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	29 min
Apr 15, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	48 min
Apr 15, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin, Lawrence	55 min
Apr 14, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Muscogee	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.