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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 431, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 16, 1996Dallas County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1996, 6:12 PM CDT for Dallas County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: Sep 16, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Dallas County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, Sep 16, 12:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 16, 4:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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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, 9:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	61 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, 6:15 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.