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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 22, 1995Jefferson County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 8:34 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 1995, 8:34 AM CDT (13:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1995, 9:30 AM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Jefferson County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 43 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: 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

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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

Local storm report, Apr 22, 8:13 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
0812 AM CDT SAT APR 22 1995

TIME(CDT)      .....CITY LOCATION.....  STATE      ...EVENT/REMARKS...
               ....COUNTY LOCATION....

 0750 AM       SUMMITON                 AL         TORNADO REPORTED BY EMA.
 04/22/95      WALKER                              PEOPLE REPORTED TRAPPED IN
                                                   CARS AND MOBILE HOMES.

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, 7:08 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, 8:46 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

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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.