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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 307, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 30, 1995Limestone County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1995, 4:07 PM CDT for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 1995, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1995, 4:46 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Limestone County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 369 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
369 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 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 302108 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC083-302215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
407 PM CDT FRI JUN 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...LIMESTONE COUNTY
 
AT 405 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER LIMESTONE COUNTY JUST SOUTHEAST OF ATHENS.
 
PEA SIZE HAIL AND SMALL TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWN WITH THIS STORM.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 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.
 
 
 
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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 30, 2:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-302200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
259 PM CDT FRI JUN 30 1995

AT 2:50 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY
INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAINSHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY LOCATED OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MOVING EAST AT
15 TO 20 MILES PER HOUR.

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 30, 1:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson41 min
Jun 30, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene, Pickens29 min
Jun 30, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton39 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.