Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1996, 6:01 AM CST for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 9 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
- Jan 24, 1996, 6:01 AM CST (12:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1996, 6:10 AM CST
- In force
- 9 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 24, 1:20 AM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 1:20 AM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-240945- AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 220 AM EST WED JAN 24 1996 MDLS TAKE SFC LOW CRNTLY OVR N IND INTO SE CANADA WITH ASSOC TRAILING COLD FRONT MOVG FROM CNTRL GLF CST INTO CNTL FL BY 00Z THU. THNK THE BULK OF THE WX SHUD OCCUR ACRS THE FCST AREA BETWEEN 12 AND 18Z. AFTER FRNTL SYSTEM MOVES THRU THE STATE...HIGH PRES MOVES INTO EASTERN U.S. WITH ANOTHER LOW MOVING INTO MIDWEST AND TROF AXIS EXTENDING INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS BY 48 HRS. GRIDDED DATA INDICATES PLENTY OF MSTR FLUX CONVRGNC AND MSTR TRNSPRT AHEAD OF THE FRONT TDY. SELS SVR WX OUTLOOK PLACES FCST AREA IN SLGHT RISK FOR SVR TSTMS. THNK IF SVR WX DOES DVLP IT WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN NRTHRN PORTIONS OF CWA SINCE MDLS INDICATE DYNAMICS AND FORCING MAINLY TO THE NORTH OF AREA. FORCING IS MORE PRONOUNCED BY ETA WHICH SHOWS Q-VECTOR FORCING FROM IND TO CNTRL GLF/W PORTION OF CWA BY 12Z. AFTER 12Z NGM AND ETA SWEEP Q-VECTOR FORCING OFF TO THE NE. IN ADDITION VVEL'S SEEM RATHER WEAK ACRS FA...BUT SIGNIFICANT VALUES ARE EVIDENT FARTHER NORTH. ANOTHER FACTOR WHICH MAY PUT A DAMPER ON SVR WEATHER IS LACK OF SIGNIFIANT INSTABILITY. LI'S ARE MARGINAL AT BEST FROM BOTH NGM AND ETA. WIND PROFILES HOWEVER DO LOOK FAVORABLE...NOT ALOT OF DIRECTIONAL SHEAR BUT SIGNIFICANT SPEED SHEAR IS INDICATED BY MODELS. 1) 62/32/60 600 2) 67/38/61 500 3) 68/35/63 500
Nearby
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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.