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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 26, 1996Lee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 1996, 10:02 PM CST for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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 26, 1996, 10:02 PM CST (04:02 UTC)
Expired
Jan 26, 1996, 10:30 PM CST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, AL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jan 26, 10:20 PM CSTThunderstorm Wind 50Opelika, 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 676 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
676 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
904 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
Jan 26, 6:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes53 min
Jan 26, 6:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningBMXDeKalb3 hr
Jan 26, 6:50 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningBMXPickens115 min
Jan 26, 11:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRussell38 min
Jan 26, 11:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBarbour34 min
Jan 26, 11:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChattahoochee45 min
Jan 26, 11:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMuscogee35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.