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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 395, NWS Birmingham, AL

August 24, 1996Cleburne County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1996, 3:57 PM CDT for Cleburne County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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
Aug 24, 1996, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Cleburne County, AL

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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 1996-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 120 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 1996-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 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
Aug 24, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone, Morgan65 min
Aug 24, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone59 min
Aug 24, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarshall65 min
Aug 24, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXClay39 min
Aug 24, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCullman39 min
Aug 24, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCherokee34 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.