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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 367, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 7, 1996Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1996, 9:09 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 66 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
Jul 7, 1996, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1996, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1207 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 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
1207 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
5.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHSV 080210
SVRHSV
ALC077-080315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
909 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY
 
AT 905 THIS EVENING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE
INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN
THE VICINITY OF CLOVERDALE AND THREET.
 
VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED IN COLBERT AND MORGAN
COUNTIES.
 
MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar46 min
Jul 7, 10:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXBullock, Macon, Montgomery4 hr
Jul 7, 10:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXDallas, Lowndes4 hr
Jul 7, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarshall58 min
Jul 7, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson62 min
Jul 8, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLawrence66 min
Jul 8, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter65 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.