Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Mar 5, 1996, 9:34 PM CST (03:34 UTC)

Expired

Mar 5, 1996, 10:15 PM CST

In force

41 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Winston County, AL

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 060336
SVRBHM
ALC133-060415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
934 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...WINSTON COUNTY
 
AT 934 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
NORTHEAST MARION COUNTY...JUST EAST OF HACKLEBURG. THIS STORM HAS
PRODUCED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR HACKLEBURG AROUND 930 PM.
 
THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL MOVE ACROSS
HALEYVILLE BY 1000 PM.  LARGE HAIL AND VERY STRONG WIND REMAINS LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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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.