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Tornado Warning 104, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 7, 1996, 5:52 PM CST for Autauga County, Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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
- Nov 7, 1996, 5:52 PM CST (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Autauga County, AL, Montgomery County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 072353 RRA TORBHM ALC001-101-080030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 552 PM CST THU NOV 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SOUTHEASTERN AUTAUGA COUNTY...NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR ON THE AUTAUGA...MONTGOMERY COUNTY LINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Nov 7, 4:00 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
ALZ004-005-013-014-022-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 400 PM CST THU NOV 7 1996 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1121... LIMESTONE...LAWRENCE...WINSTON...FAYETTE...PICKENS.
Special weather statement, Nov 7, 5:20 PM CST, 32 minutes before
ALZ006-007-015-016-080000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 520 PM CST THU NOV 7 1996 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1121.... MADISON...MORGAN...CULLMAN...WALKER.
Special weather statement, Nov 7, 5:21 PM CST, 31 minutes before
ALZ006-007-015-016-080000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 520 PM CST THU NOV 7 1996 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER &1121.... MADISON...MORGAN...CULLMAN...WALKER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 12:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 56 min |
| Nov 7, 12:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 48 min |
| Nov 7, 12:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 58 min |
| Nov 7, 1:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 43 min |
| Nov 7, 1:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 53 min |
| Nov 7, 1:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 51 min |
| Nov 7, 2:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 34 min |
| Nov 7, 2:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 17 min |
| Nov 7, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 50 min |
| Nov 7, 2:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 25 min |
| Nov 7, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 57 min |
| Nov 7, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 28 min |
| Nov 7, 4:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 32 min |
| Nov 7, 4:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 48 min |
| Nov 7, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 48 min |
| Nov 7, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 38 min |
| Nov 7, 5:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 25 min |
| Nov 7, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Etowah | 49 min |
| Nov 7, 5:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 29 min |
| Nov 7, 5:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 40 min |
| Nov 7, 5:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 52 min |
| Nov 7, 5:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa | 48 min |
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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.