Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 467, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 7:33 PM CST for Tallapoosa 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, 7:33 PM CST (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tallapoosa County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 984 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 13.7
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, 3 hours 33 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, 2 hours 13 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, 2 hours 12 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, 7:06 PM CST, 27 minutes before
ALZ008>010-017-018-023>026-030>034-039-040-051>055-080200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 707 PM CST THU NOV 7 1996 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN ALABAMA HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1121.... JACKSON...MARSHALL...DEKALB...ETOWAH...BLOUNT...ST. CLAIR... JEFFERSON...SHELBY...TUSCALOOSA...BIBB...SUMTER...GREENE... HALE...PERRY...CHOCTAW...MARENGO...WILCOX...DALLAS...WASHINGTON... CLARKE...MONROE.
Special weather statement, Nov 7, 7:25 PM CST, 8 minutes before
ALZ020-035-080300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 725 PM CST THU NOV 7 1996 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN ALABAMA HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1121.... CHHEROKEE...CHILTON.
Local storm report, Nov 7, 7:30 PM CST, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA
730 PM CST THU NOV 07 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0325 PM LIVINGSTON AL .75 INCH HAIL
11/07/96 SUMTER DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
IN LIVINGSTON BY EMA.
0333 PM AL WIND DAMAGE
11/07/96 TUSCALOOSA METAL SHEET RIPPED OFF
ROOF OF HOUSE REPORTED BY
EMA.
0540 PM HOKES BLUFF AL .75 INCH HAIL
11/07/96 ETOWAH DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
IN HOKES BLUFF BY SHERIFF.
0620 PM HANOVER AL TORNADO
11/07/96 COOSA UNCONFIRMED TORNADO NEAR
HANOVER...NUMEROUS TREES
AND POWER LINES DOWN AND
TRAILER ROLLED OVER.
0632 PM AL TORNADO
11/07/96 COOSA UNCONFIRMED TORNADO NEAR
STEWARTVILLE...TREES AND
POWER LINES DOWN AND
MOBILE HOME DAMAGE.hThe office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 6:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 27 min |
| Nov 7, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 37 min |
| Nov 7, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 45 min |
| Nov 7, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 35 min |
| Nov 7, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore, Tallapoosa | 50 min |
| Nov 7, 7:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 28 min |
| Nov 7, 7:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 46 min |
| Nov 7, 7:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 49 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.