Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Mar 5, 1996, 9:04 PM CST (03:04 UTC)

Expired

Mar 5, 1996, 9:45 PM CST

In force

41 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Marion County, AL

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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TTAA00 KBHM 060305
SVRBHM
ALC093-060345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
904 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...MARION COUNTY
 
AT 904PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING MARION
COUNTY NEAR BEAR. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE
NEAR HAMILTON BY 915PM.
 
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 THXE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

In the hours before

ALZ011>035-039-060155-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
654 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WALKER COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

AT 650 PM RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN JEFFERSON
AND WESTERN CULLMAN COUNTY.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WIDS...BRIEF HEAVY
DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE HAIL.

OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL TUSCALOOSA COUNTY.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AROUND 15 TO 20 MPH.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.  MOTORISTS
SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY IN AREAS
OF HEAVY RAIN. YOU SHOULD WATCH FOR PONDING ON AREA ROADWAYS AND
BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE HYDROPLANING.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.