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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 296, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 18, 1995Franklin County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1995, 7:50 PM CDT for Franklin County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 1995, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1995, 8:23 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KHSV 190051 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC059-190145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
750 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 748 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM SOUTHEAST OF RUSSELVILLE ALONG COUNTY HIGHWAY 83.
 
THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE WEST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
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, 58 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.

Local storm report, Jun 18, 7:22 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
722 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

400 PM     SAINT CLAIR CO.          AL    GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
                                          STEELE VICINITY ALONG
                                          INTERSTATE 59.

713 PM     BIBB COUNTY              AL    DIME SIZE HAIL WEST BLOCKTON
                                          ...NORTHERN BIBB COUNTY.

Local storm report, Jun 18, 7:24 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
722 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

400 PM     SAINT CLAIR CO.          AL    GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
                                          STEELE VICINITY ALONG
                                          INTERSTATE 59.

713 PM     BIBB COUNTY              AL    DIME SIZE HAIL WEST BLOCKBTON
                                          ...NORTHERN BIBB COUNTY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert	61 min
Jun 19, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	65 min
Jun 19, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	56 min
Jun 19, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	47 min
Jun 19, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	66 min
Jun 19, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Cullman	69 min
Jun 19, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker, Winston	44 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.