Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 1995, 3:06 PM CST for Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 1995, 3:06 PM CST (21:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 1995, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KHSV 282108 RRA SVRHSV ALC095-282215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 306 PM CST SAT JAN 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CST ... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY AT 300 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY NEAR BOAZ. THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL OVER NORTHERN CULLMAN COUNTY MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY APPROACH THE COMMUNITIES OF BOAZ AND MCVILLE WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 2:53 PM CST, 13 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 3:03 PM CST, 3 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 3:04 PM CST, 2 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker, Winston | 35 min |
| Jan 27, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 59 min |
| Jan 27, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Lawrence | 60 min |
| Jan 28, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 62 min |
| Jan 28, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 24 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.