Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 10, 1995, 7:09 PM CST for Clay County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 10, 1995, 7:09 PM CST (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 1995, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 110110 RRA SVRBHM ALC027-110145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 709 PM CST FRI FEB 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...CLAY COUNTY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO CLAY COUNTY IN THE AREA WEST OF ASHLAND. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EASTWARD AT 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR. REPORTS FROM SOUTHEAST TALLADEGA COUNTY INDICATED THAT SMALL HAIL HAD OCCURRED, BUT THE THUNDERSTORM HAS CONTINUED TO BECOME STRONGER. 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.
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
Special weather statement, Feb 10, 1:15 PM CST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-102020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 115 PM CST FRI FEB 10 1995 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER NORTH-CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 115 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SECTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH-CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHERN SHELBY COUNTY...THE WALKER /JEFFERSON COUNTY LINE...AND IN A BAND FROM PICKENS ACROSS TUSCALOOSA AND BIBB COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING OCCASIONAL CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES HAVE BEEN RUNNING ABOUT 1/2 TO 1 INCH PER HOUR.
Special weather statement, Feb 10, 2:59 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
ALZ023>026-034-102300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 259 PM CST FRI FEB 10 1995 AT 255 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE A SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM TUSCALOOSA COUNTY NORTHEAST INTO JEFFERSON COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACING THE BIRMINGHAN METRO AREA AND WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. BRIEF GUSTY WIND...LIGHTNING...AND ISOLAT<ED DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Feb 10, 4:12 PM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-110015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 412 PM CST FRI FEB 10 1995 AT 405 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE A SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SOUTHERN SHELBY EAST ACROSS TALLADEGA AND CLEBURNE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 40 MILES. DURING THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS THE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ACROSS PARTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND EASTWARD TO CLEBURNE COUNTY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN. YOU SHOULD WATCH FOR PONDING ON AREA ROADWAYS AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE HYDROPLANING.
Special weather statement, Feb 10, 4:54 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-102355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 454 PM CST FRI FEB 10 1995 ...BANDS OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTH-CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 445 PM CST...RADAR WAS DETECTING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM GREENE COUNTY TO SHELBY COUNTY TO RANDOLPH COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN SHELBY COUNTY...SOUTHERN TALLADEGA COUNTY...AND NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THESE COUNTIES DURING THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. ANOTHER 1 INCH OR SO OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BEFORE 530 PM. ELSEWHERE...OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED ACROSS TUSCALOOSA COUNTY INTO SOUTHWEST JEFFERSON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING OVER THE BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN AREA BETWEEN 5 AND 530 PM. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE SMALLER STREAMS TO RISE RAPIDLY AND FLOOD. FLOODING OF DRAINAGE DITCHES...LOW SPOTS...PARKING LOTS... UNDERPASSES AND OTHER POORLY DRAINED AREAS IS ALSO POSSIBLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 6:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 28 min |
| Feb 10, 6:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 32 min |
| Feb 10, 7:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 42 min |
| Feb 10, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 40 min |
| Feb 10, 7:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 48 min |
| Feb 10, 10:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Randolph | 2 hr |
| Feb 10, 10:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Clay | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.