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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 30, 1996Sumter County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 30, 1996, 5:18 PM CST for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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 30, 1996, 5:18 PM CST (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Jan 30, 1996, 6:00 PM CST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Sumter County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1996-01-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 194 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1996-01-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
194 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 30, 5:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene52 min
Jan 30, 5:43 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXSumter47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 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.