Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Mar 15, 1996, 4:27 PM CST (22:27 UTC)

Expired

Mar 15, 1996, 5:15 PM CST

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Randolph County, AL

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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TTAA00 KBHM 152227 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC111-152315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
427 PM CST FRI MAR 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...RANDOLPH COUNTY
 
AT 427 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN THE DELTA AREA IN CLAY COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS RANDOLPH COUNTY
AFFECTING MORRISON CROSSROADS...WEDOWEE...ROCKDALE...AND WOODLAND 440 PM
TO 500 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAlD.

In the hours before

ALZ011>015-152120-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1216 PM CST FRI MAR 15 1996

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST ALABAMA....

...MARION...WINSTON...WALKER...LAMAR...AND FAYETTE...

AT 1215PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED DECREASED SHOWER AND
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS MOST OF NORTHWEST ALABAMA. A CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON BUT SEVERE
WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED OVER THESE COUNTIES.

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES REMAIN IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...
...BLOUNT...CULLMAN...ETOWAH...AND CHEROKEE. SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED FROM CULLMAN EAST TO
GADSDEN. THE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH. NO STORMS WERE SEVERE
AT THIS TIME AND THESE COUNTIES MAY BE CLEARED FROM THE WATCH DURING
THE NEXT FEW HOURS.

ALZ026-152245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
342 PM CST FRI MAR 15 1996

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ST. CLAIR COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED.  THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS NOW MOVED INTO WESTERN
TALLADEGA COUNTY.

ALZ027-152245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
414 PM CST FRI MAR 15 1996

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TALLADEGA COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
THE SEVERE THUNDERST<ORM HAS MOVED OUT OT TALLADEGA COUNTY AND INTO CLAY
COUNTY.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.