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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 24, 1996Elmore County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 6:41 PM CDT for Elmore County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 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
May 24, 1996, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Elmore County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 88 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1996-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1554 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1996-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1554 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1335 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

Local storm report, May 24, 6:26 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA
625 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0325 PM    CLANTON                   AL   .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/96   CHILTON

0412 PM    BIRMINGHAM                AL   .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/96   JEFFERSON

0415 PM    PRATTVILLE                AL   .5 INCH HAIL
05/24/96   AUTAUGA                        JUST NORTH OF PRATVILLE

0427 PM    CALERA                    AL   1 INCH HAIL
05/24/96   SHELBY

0430 PM    BIRMINGHAM ARPT           AL   .5 INCH HAIL
05/24/96   JEFFERSON                      REPORT NEAR AIRPORT

0445 PM    BRUNDIDGE                 AL   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/96   PIKE                           TREES BLOWN DOWN ON HWY
                                          231 2-3 MILES SOUTH OF
                                          BRUNDIDGE

0520 PM    SARDIS                    AL   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/96   DALLAS                         TREES BLOWN DOWN OF HWY 41
                                          NEAR SARDIS.  LARGE HAIL
                                          ALSO REPORTED.

0555 PM    HOOVER                    AL   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/96   JEFFERSON                      POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN ON
                                          ALFORD AVE.

0557 PM    MT OLIVE                  AL   1 INCH HAIL
05/24/96   JEFFERSON

0558 PM    TUSKEGEE                  AL   .88 INCH HAIL
05/24/96   MACON

0600 PM    BIRMINGHAM                AL   .88 INCH HAIL
05/24/96   JEFFERSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton58 min
May 24, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXAutauga41 min
May 24, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson48 min
May 24, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby43 min
May 24, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBarbour44 min
May 24, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes66 min
May 24, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPike61 min
May 24, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas65 min
May 24, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRussell58 min
May 24, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPerry58 min
May 24, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMacon56 min
May 24, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson41 min
May 24, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery64 min
May 24, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRussell61 min
May 24, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMacon65 min
May 24, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson62 min
May 24, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount, Cullman41 min
May 24, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb53 min
May 24, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXStewart25 min
May 24, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXStewart47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.