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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 19, 1996Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 1996, 9:00 PM CST for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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
Feb 19, 1996, 9:00 PM CST (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Feb 19, 1996, 9:30 PM CST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Barbour County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1996-02-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1996-02-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 247 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
323 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

Special weather statement, Feb 19, 4:19 PM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before
ALZ040-192320-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
419 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996

THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DALLAS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  THE
THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED IN INTENSITY AND TORNADOES ARE NO LONGER A
THREAT.
Special weather statement, Feb 19, 4:20 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
ALZ040-192320-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
419 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996

THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DALLAS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  THE
THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED IN INTENSITY AND TORNADOES ARE NO LONGER A
Special weather statement, Feb 19, 4:22 PM CST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ040-192320-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
419 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996

THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DALLAS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  THE
THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED IN INTENSITY AND TORNADOES ARE NO LONGER A
THREAT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 19, 6:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery50 min
Feb 19, 6:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCoosa, Talladega67 min
Feb 19, 6:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock37 min
Feb 19, 7:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMacon43 min
Feb 19, 7:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock33 min
Feb 19, 8:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLee, Russell50 min
Feb 19, 9:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRussell28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1996Every 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.