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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 10, 1995Blount County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1995, 12:01 PM CDT for Blount County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1995, 12:01 PM CDT (17:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1995, 12:30 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Blount County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 1995-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2136 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 1995-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
2136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1190 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 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 101702 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC009-101730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1201 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...BLOUNT COUNTY
 
AT 11:59 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE
JEFFERSON/BLOUNT COUNTY LINE JUST SOUTHWEST OF REMLAP. THIS STORM IS
MOVING SLOWLY EAST AND SHOULD IMPACT THE REMLAP AREA BY 12:15 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:19 AM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
ALZ049-050-101420-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
819 AM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995

AT 815 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY WAS
INDICATING A LINE OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM
TROY-LOUISVILLE -CLAYTON-EUFAULA. THIS LINE COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL AND STRONG WINDS.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.  MOTORISTS
SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY IN AREAS
OF HEAVY RAIN. YOU SHOULD WATCH FOR PONDING ON AREA ROADWAYS AND
BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE HYDROPLANING.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 6:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDeKalb63 min
Jun 10, 11:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson26 min
Jun 10, 11:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson27 min
Jun 10, 11:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDeKalb43 min
Jun 10, 12:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTalladega29 min
Jun 10, 12:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount38 min
Jun 10, 12:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson35 min
Jun 10, 12:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXEtowah45 min
Jun 10, 1:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby23 min
Jun 10, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa25 min
Jun 10, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.