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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 11, 1995Fayette County, Lamar County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 3:21 PM CDT for Fayette County, Lamar County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 1995, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, AL, Lamar County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 949 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 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 112020 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC057-075-112100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
321 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...FAYETTE COUNTY...SOUTHERN LAMAR COUNTY
 
AT 320 PM WEATHER SERVICE SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN
PICKENS COUNTY. THE STORMS WILL EFFECT MILLPORT IN LAMAR COUNTY AND
FAYETTE...BANKSTON...AND BERRY AREAS OF FAYETTE COUNTY BY 345 PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.Z  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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	45 min
Jun 11, 10:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	56 min
Jun 11, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	48 min
Jun 11, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	58 min
Jun 11, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	55 min
Jun 11, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	63 min
Jun 11, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin	57 min
Jun 11, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	36 min
Jun 11, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	28 min
Jun 11, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1995 Every 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.