Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 413, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1996, 9:59 AM CDT for Jackson County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min. 2 reports 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
- Sep 16, 1996, 9:59 AM CDT (14:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1996, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 10:35 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Scottsboro, AL | |
| Sep 16, 10:42 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Pisgah, 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 161459 SVRHSV ALC071-161600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 959 AM CDT MON SEP 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...JACKSON COUNTY AT 958 THIS MORNING RADAR AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLY CONTAINING DAMAGING WINDS IN WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY FRON NEAR WOODVILLE NORTH TO NEAR PRINCETON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 6:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 45 min |
| Sep 16, 7:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 52 min |
| Sep 16, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 65 min |
| Sep 16, 7:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 43 min |
| Sep 16, 8:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 46 min |
| Sep 16, 8:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 57 min |
| Sep 16, 8:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 63 min |
| Sep 16, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 45 min |
| Sep 16, 9:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 65 min |
| Sep 16, 9:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 56 min |
| Sep 16, 10:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 64 min |
| Sep 16, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 65 min |
| Sep 16, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 47 min |
| Sep 16, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 68 min |
| Sep 16, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Lawrence | 63 min |
| Sep 16, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 37 min |
| Sep 16, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 55 min |
| Sep 16, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 38 min |
| Sep 16, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 48 min |
| Sep 16, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 69 min |
| Sep 16, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall, Morgan | 63 min |
| Sep 16, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 40 min |
| Sep 16, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 43 min |
| Sep 16, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 69 min |
| Sep 16, 5:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Cullman | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 61 min |
| Sep 16, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 31 min |
| Sep 16, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 29 min |
| Sep 16, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas, Marengo, Perry | 41 min |
| Sep 16, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 58 min |
| Sep 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 45 min |
| Sep 16, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore | 44 min |
| Sep 16, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 40 min |
| Sep 16, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 33 min |
| Sep 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 30 min |
| Sep 16, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 44 min |
| Sep 16, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 41 min |
| Sep 16, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 55 min |
| Sep 16, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 36 min |
| Sep 16, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 31 min |
| Sep 16, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore | 45 min |
| Sep 16, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 36 min |
Nearby
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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.