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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 454, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 7, 1996Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 12:19 PM CST for Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 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
Nov 7, 1996, 12:19 PM CST (18:19 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1996, 1:15 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Colbert County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-11-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-11-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 429 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
429 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
494 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 7, 12:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar48 min
Nov 7, 12:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin58 min
Nov 7, 1:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarion43 min
Nov 7, 1:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb, Perry53 min
Nov 7, 1:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette51 min
Nov 7, 2:11 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXBibb34 min
Nov 7, 2:28 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXChilton17 min
Nov 7, 2:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter50 min
Nov 7, 2:50 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXShelby25 min
Nov 7, 3:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone, Morgan57 min
Nov 7, 3:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb28 min
Nov 7, 4:13 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXShelby32 min
Nov 7, 4:27 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXShelby48 min
Nov 7, 4:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSt. Clair48 min
Nov 7, 4:52 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXTalladega38 min
Nov 7, 5:05 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXSt. Clair25 min
Nov 7, 5:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCalhoun, Etowah49 min
Nov 7, 5:31 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXTalladega29 min
Nov 7, 5:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton40 min
Nov 7, 5:38 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXCalhoun52 min
Nov 7, 5:52 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Montgomery38 min
Nov 7, 5:57 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXCoosa48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.