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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 27, 1996Fayette County, Walker County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 9:03 PM CDT for Fayette County, Walker 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
May 27, 1996, 9:03 PM CDT (02:03 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, AL, Walker County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 524 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
524 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1149 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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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
May 27, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin57 min
May 27, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMarion66 min
May 27, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMorgan67 min
May 28, 1:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone62 min
May 28, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMorgan57 min
May 28, 1:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison63 min
May 28, 2:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarshall63 min
May 28, 2:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarion62 min
May 28, 2:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin59 min
May 28, 2:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount56 min
May 28, 2:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar65 min
May 28, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXEtowah60 min
May 28, 3:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLawrence, Winston66 min
May 28, 3:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCherokee45 min
May 28, 3:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWalker46 min
May 28, 4:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson53 min
May 28, 5:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale64 min
May 28, 5:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale50 min
May 28, 6:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore51 min
May 28, 7:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes32 min
May 28, 10:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale, Tuscaloosa69 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.