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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 250, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 6, 1995Madison County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 6:56 PM CDT for Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min.

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The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1995, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 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, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone61 min
Jun 6, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMorgan56 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.