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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 29, 1996Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 3:47 PM EDT for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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
Apr 29, 1996, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1996, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Muscogee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 356 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 12:00Z on 1996-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
356 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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
Apr 29, 1:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert57 min
Apr 29, 2:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale58 min
Apr 29, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas65 min
Apr 29, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar, Marion55 min
Apr 29, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPickens55 min
Apr 29, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette25 min
Apr 29, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter62 min
Apr 29, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXAutauga, Elmore, Montgomery54 min
Apr 29, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore, Montgomery43 min
Apr 29, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLawrence56 min
Apr 29, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRussell53 min
Apr 29, 3:39 PM EDTTornado WarningBMXElmore36 min
Apr 29, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone64 min
Apr 29, 3:52 PM EDTTornado WarningBMXCoosa, Tallapoosa68 min
Apr 29, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMorgan66 min
Apr 29, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison66 min
Apr 29, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXClay, Randolph58 min
Apr 29, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers47 min
Apr 29, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarshall64 min
Apr 29, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCleburne48 min
Apr 29, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount39 min
Apr 29, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRussell30 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.