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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 28, 1995Marengo County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT for Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Marengo County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 282146
SVRBHM
ALC091-282245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
445 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...MARENGO COUNTY
 
AT 445 PM NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
NANAFALIA AREA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND
WILL AFFECT THE LINDEN AREA IN THE NEXT 15 TO 30 MINUTES.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY 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, May 28, 12:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 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.

Special weather statement, May 28, 3:54 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

ALZ036-040>042-057-058-060-282255-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
354 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995
353 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995

AT 340PM...CDT...THE NATIONA WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED LARGE PATCHES
OF
MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS...A FEW
WITH HEAVY RAIN AND ISOLATED WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...THE RAIN AND
THINDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHWEST...WEST AND
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH.

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.

Special weather statement, May 28, 4:02 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-282305-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
401 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995

AT 4 PM CDT THE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT MONTGOMERYSHOWED LARGE PATCHES
OF LIGHT RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS.  A FEW WITH HEAVY RAIN THE
THUNDERSTORMS STRECTCHED FROM ROCKFORD TO SELMA AND SOUTHWEST INTO
MISSISSIPPI.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR SELMA AND ROCKFORD.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTH ALABAMA AROUND ANDALUSIA.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.

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.

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, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Jefferson	57 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, 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.