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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 28, 1995Bibb County, Jefferson County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 1:48 PM CDT for Bibb County, Jefferson County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 1995, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bibb County, AL, Jefferson County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 24 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: 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 281851
SVRBHM
ALC007-073-281945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
148 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...BIBB COUNTY...JEFFERSON COUNTY
 
AT 146 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
FROM WESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY SOUTHWARD INTO WESTERN BIBB COUNTY.
THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH
AND HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AS IT MOVED THROUGH
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY.
 
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURFRING...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.
 
 
 
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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, May 28, 12:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
140 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995

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

1222 P0M    FAYETTE                  AL    DIME SIZE HAIL...TREES AND
05/28/95   FAYETTE                        POWERLINES DOWNED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 12:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	54 min
May 28, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	63 min
May 28, 12:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	66 min
May 28, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	25 min
May 28, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	69 min
May 28, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	63 min
May 28, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	60 min
May 28, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	44 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.