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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 19, 1995Walker County, Winston County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1995, 4:19 PM CDT for Walker County, Winston County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 1995, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1995, 5:03 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 670 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
670 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 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 
WUUS1 KBHM 192119 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC127-133-192215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
419 PM CDT MON JUN 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...WALKER COUNTY
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...WINSTON COUNTY
 
AT 418 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN WINSTON
AND NORTHERN WALKER COUNTY AND WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert61 min
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

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.