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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 27, 1996Chattahoochee County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1996, 12:15 AM EST for Chattahoochee County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 27, 1996, 12:15 AM EST (05:15 UTC)
Expired
Jan 27, 1996, 1:00 AM EST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Chattahoochee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 270516 RRA
SVRBHM
GAC053-270600-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1115 PM CST (1215 AM EST) FRI JAN 26 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST (100 AM EST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY
 
AT 1215 AM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER EASTERN
RUSSELL COUNTY ALABAMA. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE AFFECTING THE
FORT BENNING AREA IN CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY GEORGIA BY 1230 AM.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 27, 12:25 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMuscogee35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.