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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 15, 1996Limestone County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 5:50 PM CST for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 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 15, 1996, 5:50 PM CST (23:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 1996, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Limestone County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 613 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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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, Mar 15, 12:16 PM CST, 5 hours 34 minutes 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.

Special weather statement, Mar 15, 3:42 PM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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.

Special weather statement, Mar 15, 4:15 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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.

Special weather statement, Mar 15, 4:38 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 9:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone, Madison	55 min
Mar 15, 12:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	69 min
Mar 15, 12:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	57 min
Mar 15, 12:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	57 min
Mar 15, 1:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	48 min
Mar 15, 1:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	60 min
Mar 15, 1:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	64 min
Mar 15, 2:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	57 min
Mar 15, 2:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	68 min
Mar 15, 3:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	35 min
Mar 15, 3:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	60 min
Mar 15, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	42 min
Mar 15, 4:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	48 min

Nearby

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

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.