Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 1:55 PM CDT for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Limestone County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 19, 12:57 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1255 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1138 AM JASPER AL QUARTER (COIN) SIZED HAIL
04/19/95 WALKER
1154 AM BUG TUSSLE AL QUARTER SIZED HAIL
0419/95 CULLMAN
1158 AM SIPSEY AL HALF-DOLLAR SIZE HAIL
04/19/95 WALKER
1210 PM SOUTH OF BREMEN AL PUBLIC REPORT OF FUNNEL
04/19/95 CULLMAN CLOUD.
1235 PM HAYDEN AL WIND DAMAGE TO TWO BARNS...
04/19/95 BLOUNT TREES DOWN. QUARTER TO
GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 11:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 12:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lawrence | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Etowah | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, St. Clair | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 37 min |
| Apr 19, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Marshall | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 56 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.