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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 466, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 7, 1996Cherokee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 6:03 PM CST for Cherokee County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 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, 6:03 PM CST (00:03 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1996, 6:30 PM CST
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Cherokee County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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 00:00Z on 1996-11-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 700 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-11-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -244 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
700 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.8
Supercell composite
-3.0

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The text

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

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, Nov 7, 4:00 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
ALZ004-005-013-014-022-072300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
400 PM CST THU NOV 7 1996

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA HAVE BEEN REMOVED
FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1121...

LIMESTONE...LAWRENCE...WINSTON...FAYETTE...PICKENS.
Special weather statement, Nov 7, 5:20 PM CST, 43 minutes before
ALZ006-007-015-016-080000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
520 PM CST THU NOV 7 1996

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA HAVE BEEN REMOVED
FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1121....

MADISON...MORGAN...CULLMAN...WALKER.
Special weather statement, Nov 7, 5:21 PM CST, 42 minutes before
ALZ006-007-015-016-080000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
520 PM CST THU NOV 7 1996

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA HAVE BEEN REMOVED
FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER &1121....

MADISON...MORGAN...CULLMAN...WALKER.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 7, 6:08 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXElmore37 min
Nov 7, 6:15 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXClay45 min
Nov 7, 6:25 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXTalladega35 min
Nov 7, 6:40 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXElmore, Tallapoosa50 min
Nov 7, 7:02 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXClay28 min
Nov 7, 7:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTallapoosa27 min
Nov 7, 7:44 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXChambers46 min
Nov 7, 7:56 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXRandolph49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.