Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1996, 1:39 PM CST for Lawrence County, Alabama. It was in force for 66 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 6, 1996, 1:39 PM CST (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1996, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lawrence County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 061940 TORHSV ALC079-062045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 139 PM CST WED MAR 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 139 PM CST RADAR AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST WEST OF HATTON IN WEST CENTRAL LAWRENCE COUNTY. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS A>VAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 54 min |
| Mar 5, 9:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 9:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Lawrence | 60 min |
| Mar 5, 10:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 69 min |
| Mar 6, 12:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 64 min |
| Mar 6, 1:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 2:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 3:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 31 min |
| Mar 6, 3:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 3:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 4:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 48 min |
| Mar 6, 4:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 41 min |
| Mar 6, 4:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 5:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 57 min |
| Mar 6, 5:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 5:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 63 min |
| Mar 6, 5:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 69 min |
| Mar 6, 6:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock | 38 min |
| Mar 6, 7:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 40 min |
| Mar 6, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lawrence | 66 min |
| Mar 6, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 50 min |
| Mar 6, 2:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 38 min |
| Mar 6, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 41 min |
| Mar 6, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 4:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 35 min |
| Mar 6, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 4:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Limestone | 62 min |
| Mar 6, 5:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 68 min |
| Mar 6, 5:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 59 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.