Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 294, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1995, 6:58 PM CDT for Bibb County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1995, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1995, 7:38 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bibb County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 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 182357 RRA SVRBHM ALC007-190045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 658 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...BIBB COUNTY AT 654PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN BIBB COUNTY NEAR WEST BLOCKTON AND WOODSTOCK. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL ACROSS THESE TOWNS WITHIN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES. 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 18, 6:52 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
ALZ016>018-020-190055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 652 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 1995 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 633 AREA... CULLMAN...BLOUNT...ETOWAH...AND CHEROKEE... AT 650 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED WEST OUT OF THE LISTED COUNTIES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED IN THE ABOVE COUNTIES AND ONLY ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECASTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 68 min |
| Jun 18, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 56 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.