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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 295, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 18, 1995Colbert County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1995, 7:14 PM CDT for Colbert County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 1995, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Colbert County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 194 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 286 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
286 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 22 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin33 min
Jun 19, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson65 min
Jun 19, 2:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone56 min
Jun 19, 2:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison47 min
Jun 19, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMorgan66 min
Jun 19, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount, Cullman69 min
Jun 19, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWalker, Winston44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.