Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 7:08 AM CDT for Walker County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 7:08 AM CDT (12:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walker County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:45 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Sumiton, AL | Several large oak trees were blown down in downtown Jasper. Several streets were flooded due to heavy rain. Small hail was also reported in Jasper, 10 miles north of Jasper, and Sumiton. Alabama Power reported 12,000 customers without power in Carbon Hill, |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1475 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 6:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.