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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 349, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 23, 1996Tallapoosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 12:51 PM CDT for Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 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, 12:51 PM CDT (17:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1996, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Tallapoosa County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 1996-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1603 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 1996-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 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
1603 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 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, 12:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLee, Russell69 min
Jun 23, 1:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby54 min
Jun 23, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCoosa42 min
Jun 23, 2:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLee56 min
Jun 23, 2:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMacon49 min
Jun 23, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWalker33 min
Jun 23, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette30 min
Jun 23, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa33 min
Jun 23, 12:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMuscogee63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.