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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 23, 1996Lee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 2:04 PM CDT for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 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, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1996, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 117 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 231905
SVRBHM
ALC081-232000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
204 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...LEE COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST THROUGH LEE COUNTY.
THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR AUBURN AND PEPPERELL AT 2PM. THE MAIN DANGER
FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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, 12:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTallapoosa69 min
Jun 23, 1:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby54 min
Jun 23, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCoosa42 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

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.