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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 28, 1995Fayette County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 12:21 PM CDT for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1995, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1995, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Fayette County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1053 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1053 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 12:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPickens63 min
May 28, 12:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa66 min
May 28, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb, Jefferson57 min
May 28, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter25 min
May 28, 2:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby69 min
May 28, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter63 min
May 28, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarengo60 min
May 28, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarengo44 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.