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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 28, 1995DeKalb County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 1995, 5:47 PM CST for DeKalb County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 28, 1995, 5:47 PM CST (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Jan 28, 1995, 6:11 PM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County DeKalb County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHSV 282346 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC049-290045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
547 PM CST SAT JAN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CST
...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...DEKALB COUNTY
 
AT 545 PM CST RADAR AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE SHOWED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NORTHWEST OF FORT PAYNE IN DEKALB COUNTY.
 
THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.
 
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTI$ON MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, 3:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson, Madison	62 min

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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.