Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 6:51 AM CDT for Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 6:51 AM CDT (11:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 7:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morgan County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 747 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 221151 SVRHSV ALC103-221300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 651 AM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...MORGAN COUNTY AT 646 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR EVA AND COLE SPRING. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. A WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED FOR MARSHALL COUNTY IF THE THUNDER STORM CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST AND DOES NOT WEAKEN. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 6:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Marion | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 7:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 69 min |
| Apr 22, 7:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 7:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 53 min |
| Apr 22, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 45 min |
| Apr 22, 7:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 8:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 58 min |
| Apr 22, 8:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 8:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 30 min |
| Apr 22, 8:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 8:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 8:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 8:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 9:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 9:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 9:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 15 min |
| Apr 22, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 9:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Cleburne | 19 min |
| Apr 22, 10:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 10:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 48 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.