Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 308, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1995, 4:16 PM CDT for Greene County, Pickens County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1995, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, AL, Pickens County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 302117 RRA SVRBHM ALC063-107-302200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 416 PM CDT FRI JUN 30 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...NORTHERN GREENE COUNTY...PICKENS COUNTY AT 415 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST WEST OF CARROLLTON...THROUGH ALICEVILLE..TO THE PLEASANT RIDGE AREA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 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 30, 2:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 41 min |
| Jun 30, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 39 min |
| Jun 30, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.