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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Mobile, AL

June 7, 1996Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1996, 5:38 PM CDT for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1996, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Crenshaw County, AL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 7, 6:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Luverne, 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1237 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1237 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCovington63 min
Jun 7, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw66 min
Jun 7, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWayne65 min
Jun 7, 10:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBSanta Rosa44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1996Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.