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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 25, 1994Lauderdale County, Limestone County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1994, 9:05 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 1994, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1994, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lauderdale County, AL, Limestone County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-26Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale68 min
Jun 25, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison56 min
Jun 25, 9:59 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLimestone61 min
Jun 25, 10:12 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMadison63 min
Jun 25, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson67 min
Jun 25, 10:40 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMorgan65 min
Jun 25, 11:06 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXJackson, Marshall69 min
Jun 25, 11:22 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXDeKalb68 min
Jun 25, 11:22 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMadison68 min

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.