Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1995, 12:37 PM CDT for Blount County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1995, 12:37 PM CDT (17:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1995, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 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 17:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 101738 RRA SVRBHM ALC009-101815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1237 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...BLOUNT COUNTY AT 1237 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN BLOUNT COUNTY SOUTH OF SNEAD. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE IN ONEONTA DURING THE PAST HOUR. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. 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.
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, 4 hours 18 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 11:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Jun 10, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 27 min |
| Jun 10, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 12:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Jun 10, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 23 min |
| Jun 10, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 25 min |
| Jun 10, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 34 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.