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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 7, 1996Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1996, 12:54 AM EST for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Mar 7, 1996, 12:54 AM EST (05:54 UTC)
Expired
Mar 7, 1996, 1:45 AM EST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Muscogee County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 7, 1:00 AM ESTThunderstorm Wind 55Columbus, GA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 1996-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 113 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 1996-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 191 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
113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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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
Mar 6, 7:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarengo65 min
Mar 6, 8:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter63 min
Mar 6, 8:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin66 min
Mar 6, 8:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene40 min
Mar 6, 8:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPickens51 min
Mar 6, 8:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarion62 min
Mar 6, 9:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin57 min
Mar 6, 9:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLawrence64 min
Mar 6, 9:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter44 min
Mar 6, 9:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa54 min
Mar 6, 9:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison60 min
Mar 6, 9:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale, Limestone68 min
Mar 6, 9:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWinston43 min
Mar 6, 10:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa46 min
Mar 6, 10:15 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningBMXLauderdale, Limestone45 min
Mar 6, 10:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale, Limestone45 min
Mar 6, 10:16 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningBMXLimestone3 hr
Mar 6, 10:19 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningBMXLauderdale, Limestone41 min
Mar 6, 10:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale, Limestone41 min
Mar 6, 10:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery39 min
Mar 6, 10:38 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXLowndes37 min
Mar 6, 11:01 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery44 min
Mar 6, 11:36 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningBMXLowndes, Montgomery3 hr
Mar 6, 11:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMacon66 min
Mar 7, 12:16 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLee44 min
Mar 7, 12:46 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBMXBibb, Shelby2 hr
Mar 7, 2:58 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBMXBibb, Shelby3 hr
Mar 7, 3:53 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBMXTalladega3 hr
Mar 7, 6:01 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBMXShelby3 hr
Mar 7, 8:02 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBMXTalladega118 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.