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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 27, 1996Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1996, 12:25 AM EST for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 12:25 AM EST (05:25 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 1996, 1:00 AM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Muscogee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 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.

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

Special weather statement, Jan 26, 11:41 PM EST, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 26, 11:46 PM EST, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 26, 11:49 PM EST, 36 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 26, 7:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	53 min
Jan 26, 7:40 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	DeKalb	3 hr
Jan 26, 7:50 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Pickens	115 min
Jan 26, 11:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee	28 min
Jan 27, 12:07 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	38 min
Jan 27, 12:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	34 min
Jan 27, 12:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chattahoochee	45 min

Nearby

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