Severe Thunderstorm Warning 409, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Sep 16, 1996, 8:18 AM CDT (13:18 UTC)

Expired

Sep 16, 1996, 9:15 AM CDT

In force

57 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Cullman County, AL

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:18 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 161318
SVRBHM
ALC043-161415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
818 AM CDT MON SEP 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...CULLMAN COUNTY
 
AT 8:17 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
INTO CULLMAN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL LIKEY PUSH DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS
MUCH OF CULLMAN COUNTY...BEGINNING AROUND 8:25 IN WESTERN CULLMAN
COUNTY...AND IMPACTING CENTRAL CULLMAN COUNTY BETWEEN 8:40 AND 9
AM...AND EASTERN AREAS OF THE COUNTY AFTER 9.
 
NUMEROUS DAMAGE REPORTS HAVE COME FROM COUNTIES IN WESTERN ALABAMA AS
THESE STORMS MOVED THROUGH EARLIER THIS MORNING.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNfING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
 
 
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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.