Tornado Warning 26, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Mar 6, 1996, 3:26 PM CST (21:26 UTC)

Expired

Mar 6, 1996, 4:15 PM CST

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

County St. Clair County, AL

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 062128
TORBHM
ALC115-062215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
326 PM CST WED MAR 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...ST. CLAIR COUNTY
 
AT 323 PM RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND LIKELY
TORNADO ALONG THE JEFFERSON/BLOUNT COUNTY LINE NEAR PALMERDALE. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH...AND WILL MOVE NEAR
SPRINGVILLE...ST CLAIR SPRINGS...MARGARET...AND ODENVILLE BETWEEN 345
AND 400 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS TAKE COVER NOW.
 
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 BUILD>ING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes 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.