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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 5, 1994Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 5, 1994, 11:30 AM CST for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 5, 1994, 11:30 AM CST (17:30 UTC)
Expired
Nov 5, 1994, 12:30 PM CST
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1994-11-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1994-11-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 290 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
290 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 5, 10:49 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert56 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.