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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 430, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 16, 1996Cherokee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1996, 6:05 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 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
Sep 16, 1996, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Cherokee County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 1996-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 199 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 1996-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 224 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 162305
SVRBHM
ALC019-162345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
605 PM CDT MON SEP 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...CHEROKEE COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY.
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. MOST TOWNS ACROSS CHEROKEE COUNTY
WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
 
 
 
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 6:45 AM CDTTornado WarningBMXLamar45 min
Sep 16, 7:08 AM CDTTornado WarningBMXMarion52 min
Sep 16, 7:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMorgan65 min
Sep 16, 7:47 AM CDTTornado WarningBMXWinston43 min
Sep 16, 8:14 AM CDTTornado WarningBMXLimestone46 min
Sep 16, 8:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCullman57 min
Sep 16, 8:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison63 min
Sep 16, 9:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMorgan45 min
Sep 16, 9:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarshall65 min
Sep 16, 9:49 AM CDTTornado WarningBMXMarshall56 min
Sep 16, 9:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson61 min
Sep 16, 10:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDeKalb64 min
Sep 16, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin65 min
Sep 16, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarion47 min
Sep 16, 2:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert68 min
Sep 16, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale, Lawrence63 min
Sep 16, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter37 min
Sep 16, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone55 min
Sep 16, 4:22 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBibb38 min
Sep 16, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCullman48 min
Sep 16, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison69 min
Sep 16, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarshall, Morgan63 min
Sep 16, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXChilton40 min
Sep 16, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount43 min
Sep 16, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin69 min
Sep 16, 5:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXCullman2 hr
Sep 16, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDeKalb61 min
Sep 16, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBlount31 min
Sep 16, 5:31 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXChilton29 min
Sep 16, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas, Marengo, Perry41 min
Sep 16, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXSt. Clair58 min
Sep 16, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXAutauga45 min
Sep 16, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCoosa, Elmore44 min
Sep 16, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas33 min
Sep 16, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXEtowah30 min
Sep 16, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCalhoun44 min
Sep 16, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes41 min
Sep 16, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery55 min
Sep 16, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXDallas36 min
Sep 16, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXAutauga31 min
Sep 16, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCoosa, Elmore45 min
Sep 16, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLowndes36 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.