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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 23, 1996Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 1:42 PM EDT for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 63 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
Jun 23, 1996, 1:42 PM EDT (17:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1996, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Muscogee County, GA

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 891 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
891 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 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 23, 1:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLee, Russell69 min
Jun 23, 1:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTallapoosa69 min
Jun 23, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby54 min
Jun 23, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCoosa42 min
Jun 23, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLee56 min
Jun 23, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMacon49 min
Jun 23, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWalker33 min
Jun 23, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette30 min
Jun 23, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.