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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 11, 1996Cullman County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 3:10 PM CDT for Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1996, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1996, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Cullman County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 11, 3:30 PM CDTHail 1.75Good Hope, AL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 1996-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 26 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 1996-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 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
26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1084 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette, Lamar, Marion48 min
Jun 11, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount30 min
Jun 11, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson40 min
Jun 11, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount34 min
Jun 11, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert60 min
Jun 11, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSt. Clair65 min
Jun 11, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTalladega57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.