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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 6, 1995Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 8:32 PM CDT for Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1995, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1995, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Colbert County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -189 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHSV 070133 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC033-077-070230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
832 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...COLBERT COUNTY...LAUDERDALE COUNTY
 
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TIL 9 PM CDT FOR NORTH ALABAMA...
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR JACKSON COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT...
 
AT 832 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT HUNTSVILLE
SHOWED POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SECTIONS OF COLBERT
AND LAUDERDALE COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST ALABAMA.
 
MOVEMENT WAS EASTWARD AT AROUND 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, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson49 min
Jun 6, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa69 min
Jun 6, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson63 min
Jun 6, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson41 min
Jun 6, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby56 min
Jun 6, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTalladega37 min
Jun 6, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson36 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.