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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 22, 1995Etowah County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 8:46 AM CDT for Etowah County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 1995, 8:46 AM CDT (13:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1995, 9:30 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Etowah County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 221346
SVRBHM
ALC055-221430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
846 AM CDT SAT APR 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...ETOWAH COUNTY
 
AT 844 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN
BLOUNT COUNTY MOVING INTO WESTERN ETOWAH. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT
35 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE CITIES OF ALTOONA...WALNUT GROVE...AND
GALLANT.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVLY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, 33 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.

Local storm report, Apr 22, 8:43 AM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
0840 PM CDT SUN APR 19 1995

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

0812 AM       WARRIOR                  AL         3/4 INCH HAIL COVERING
04/22/95      JEFFERSON                           GROUND.  REPORTED BY
                                                  CHANNEL 6 TV IN BIRMINGHAM.

0814 AM       NORTHERN GARDENDALE      AL         TREES TWO FEET IN DIAMETER
04/22/95      JEFFERSON                           DOWN.  REPORTED BY SKYWARN
                                                  HAMS.

0830 AM       LOCUST FORK              AL         0TREES DOWN.  REPORT
04/22/95      BLOUNT                              FROM EMA.

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, 8:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	56 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.