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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 19, 1995Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 2:05 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 1995, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 55 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, 7.1 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KHSV 191905
SVRHSV
ALC077-192000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
205 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...EASTERN LAUDERDALE COUNTY
 
AT 201 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEAST COLBERT
COUNTY NORTH OF UNDERWOOD CROSSROADS. ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH
THIS THUNDERSTORM.
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND
SHOULD PASS NEAR ELGIN AND ROGERSVILLE DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR COLBERT...LAWRENCE
AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE \STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
 
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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, 1 hour 8 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, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	65 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.