Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 1:24 PM EST for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Mar 6, 1996, 1:24 PM EST (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1996, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Muscogee County, GA
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBHM 061826 RRA SVRBHM GAC215-061900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1224 PM CST (124 PM EST) WED MAR 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM CST (200 PM EST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...NORTHERN MUSCOGEE COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR NORTHWEST OF COLUMBUS MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, Mar 6, 7:57 AM EST, 5 hours 27 minutes before
ALZ025-027>029-033>038-040-054-055-061400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 657 AM CST WED MAR 6 1996 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 56 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...SHELBY...TALLADEGA...CLAY...RANDOLPH...BIBB...CHILTON... COOSA...TALLAPOOSA...CHAMBERS...PERRY...DALLAS...WILCOX...AND MONROE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 7:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 52 min |
| Mar 6, 7:48 AM EST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Stewart | 57 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.