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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 308, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 28, 1996Franklin County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 2:46 AM CDT for Franklin County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 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 28, 1996, 2:46 AM CDT (07:46 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 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.

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 27, 9:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin	57 min
May 27, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marion	66 min
May 27, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	67 min
May 27, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Walker	42 min
May 28, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	62 min
May 28, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	57 min
May 28, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	63 min
May 28, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	63 min
May 28, 2:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	62 min
May 28, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	56 min
May 28, 2:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	65 min
May 28, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	60 min
May 28, 3:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence, Winston	66 min
May 28, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	45 min
May 28, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	46 min
May 28, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	53 min
May 28, 5:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	64 min
May 28, 5:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	50 min
May 28, 6:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	51 min
May 28, 7:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	32 min
May 28, 10:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale, Tuscaloosa	69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.