Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 9:45 PM CST for Franklin County, Lawrence County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1996, 9:45 PM CST (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1996, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, AL, Lawrence County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 9:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Hodges, AL |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 6:55 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes 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.
Local storm report, Mar 5, 9:40 PM CST, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
935 PM CST MON APR 19 1995
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
630 PM PARRISH AL QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
03/05/96 WALKER
930 PM HACKELBURG AL GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
03/05/96 MARION COVERING GROUND.Local storm report, Mar 5, 9:41 PM CST, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
935 PM CST TUE MAR 05 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
630 PM PARRISH AL QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
03/05/96 WALKER
930 PM HACKELBURG AL GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
03/05/96 MARION COVERING GROUND.The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 54 min |
| Mar 5, 9:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 9:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 10:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 69 min |
| Mar 6, 12:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 64 min |
| Mar 6, 1:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 2:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 3:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 31 min |
| Mar 6, 3:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 3:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 4:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 48 min |
| Mar 6, 4:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 41 min |
| Mar 6, 4:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 5:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 57 min |
| Mar 6, 5:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 5:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 63 min |
| Mar 6, 5:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 69 min |
| Mar 6, 6:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock | 38 min |
| Mar 6, 7:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 40 min |
| Mar 6, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lawrence | 66 min |
| Mar 6, 1:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 66 min |
| Mar 6, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 50 min |
| Mar 6, 2:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 38 min |
| Mar 6, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 41 min |
| Mar 6, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 4:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 35 min |
| Mar 6, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 4:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Limestone | 62 min |
| Mar 6, 5:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 68 min |
| Mar 6, 5:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 59 min |
| Mar 6, 6:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 52 min |
| Mar 6, 6:48 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Stewart | 57 min |
| Mar 6, 12:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Muscogee | 36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.