Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 8:46 PM CDT for Chilton County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chilton County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 2545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.1
- Supercell composite
- 17.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 190146 SVRBHM ALC021-190215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 846 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...CHILTON COUNTY AT 8:45 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEASTERN CHILTON COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL CROSS I-65 JUST SOUTH OF CLANTON AROUND 9 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPPLIANCES 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, May 18, 7:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
ALZ040-041-190105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 705 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 AT 6 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM EMBEDDED WITHIN AN AREA OF RAINSHOWERS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN EASTERN HALE COUNTY AND WESTERN PERRY COUNTY MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. EXPECT THE THUNDERSTORM TO MOVE INTO NORTHERN DALLAS COUNTY AND WESTERN AUTAUGA COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 44 min |
| May 18, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 62 min |
| May 18, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 57 min |
| May 18, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 51 min |
| May 18, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 52 min |
| May 18, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 33 min |
| May 18, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 58 min |
| May 18, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Morgan | 61 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.