Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1996, 12:40 PM CST for Pickens County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 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
- Jan 18, 1996, 12:40 PM CST (18:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1996, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pickens County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 393 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBHM 181840 RRA SVRBHM ALC093-107-181930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1240 PM CST THU JAN 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...EASTERN MARION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...PICKENS COUNTY AT 1240 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY APPROACHING SOUTHEASTERN MARION COUNTY. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LIN THE GUIN AND BRILLIANT AREAS BY 1255 PM. OTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN PICKENS COUNTY WILL AFFECT A LARGE PART OF PICKENS COUNTY THROUGH 130 PM. MOVEMENT OF THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 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, Jan 18, 11:01 AM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
ALZ001>069-GAZ089-090-102-120-FLZ001>015-190300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1115 AM CST (1215 AM EST) THU JAN 18 1996 ...DRASTIC WEATHER CHANGES CONTINUE FOR ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING CLOSER TO ALABAMA LATE THIS MORNING. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA THROUGH THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON. WESTERN ALABAMA WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE THE FIRST SEVERE WEATHER DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THE VERY STRONG COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST ALABAMA BY EARLY EVENING. FOLLOWING THIS COLD FRONT RAPID TEMPERATURE FALLS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE STATE TONIGHT AND RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA WILL AWAKE FRIDAY TO VERY COLD AND WINDY CONDITIONS. CURRENTLY WINDS CHILL FORECAST FOR FRIDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON RANGE FROM ZERO DEGREES OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY TO SINGLE DIGITS ACROSS CENTRAL AND READINGS IN THE TEENS ARE LIKELY ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. SNOW FLURRIES REMAIN POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA BUT THE FAST MOVING SYSTEM IS NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATION. RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA...WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA ARE ADVISED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 58 min |
| Jan 18, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 58 min |
| Jan 18, 11:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 56 min |
| Jan 18, 11:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 41 min |
| Jan 18, 12:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 56 min |
| Jan 18, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 60 min |
| Jan 18, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 50 min |
| Jan 18, 12:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 59 min |
| Jan 18, 12:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Pickens | 38 min |
| Jan 18, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 30 min |
| Jan 18, 1:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 51 min |
| Jan 18, 1:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 66 min |
| Jan 18, 1:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 66 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.