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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 286, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 24, 1996Madison County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 9:13 PM CDT for Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 62 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, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1996, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 2335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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

Local storm report, May 24, 6:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 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

Local storm report, May 24, 7:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA
715 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0624 PM    BESSEMER                  AL   .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/96   JEFFERSON

0637 PM    HUEYTOWN                  AL   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/96   JEFFERSON                      TREES BLOWN DOWN.

0640 PM    HOOVER                    AL
05/24/96   JEFFJERSON                      LIGHTNING STRUCK A HOUSE
                                          AND KNOCKED OUT
                                          APPLIANCES.

Special weather statement, May 24, 7:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

ALZ043-250130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
727 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MACON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
THE STORMS HAVE WEAKEND ANjD MOVED WESTWARD.

Special weather statement, May 24, 7:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

ALZ043-250130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR COUNTY NAME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
727 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ELMORE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCEtLLED.
THE STORMS HAVE WEAKEND AND MOVED WESTWARD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	67 min
May 24, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	40 min
May 24, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	33 min
May 24, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	64 min
May 24, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	55 min
May 24, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	55 min
May 24, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	44 min
May 24, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	45 min
May 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	60 min
May 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	30 min
May 24, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	59 min
May 24, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	55 min
May 25, 1:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	44 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.