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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 6, 1995Fayette County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 5:27 PM CDT for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1995, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Fayette County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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 1995-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 637 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 1995-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
637 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 062228 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC057-062330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
527 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...FAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 525 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN FAYETTE
COUNTY JUST WEST OF THE CITY OF FAYETTE COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30
MPH.  THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CITY OF FAYETTE WITHIN
THE NEXT 15 MINUTES.
 
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WIN*DOWS.  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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin25 min
Jun 6, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa48 min
Jun 6, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone61 min
Jun 6, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMorgan56 min
Jun 6, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison64 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.