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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 6, 1995Limestone County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 6:44 PM CDT for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1995, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Limestone County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1269 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-34 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 KHSV 062346 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC083-070045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
644 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...LIMESTONE COUNTY
 
AT 645 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT HUNTSVILLE SHOWED
A POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTH LIMESTONE COUNTY ALABAMA.
 
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin25 min
Jun 6, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette63 min
Jun 6, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa48 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.