Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 1995, 3:43 PM CST for Jackson County, Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 1995, 3:43 PM CST (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 1995, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, AL, Madison County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 2:53 PM CST, 50 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 3:03 PM CST, 40 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 3:04 PM CST, 39 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-282155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 303 PM CST SAT JAN 28 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP RAPIDLY OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 250 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE AREA EXTENDED SOUTH FROM NORTHERN CULLMAN...NORTHERN BLOUNT AND SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY THROUGH NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY SOUTH OF HORTON. THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL JUST EAST OF HOLLY POND ON HIGHWAY 278 AS IT PASSED OVER NORTHEAST CULLMAN COUNTY. ANOTHER STORM WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY NEAR WHITES CHAPPEL. THIS STORM ALSO PRODUCED PEA SIZED HAIL AS IT PASSED OVER CENTER POINT. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER RANDOLPH COUNTY NEAR WEDOWEE. MOVEMENT OF ALL THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. DUE TO THE COLD AIR ALOFT...THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP OVER THE REGION ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL. ALSO...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
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, 3:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 69 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.