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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 3, 1995Franklin County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 4:22 PM CDT for Franklin County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
68 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 21:23 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, 9.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 780 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 1995-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
780 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
978 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHSV 032122 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC059-032230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
422 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 420 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE SHOWED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ITAWAMBA COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THIS STORM
PRODUCED DIME SIZE HAIL SOUTHEAST OF FULTON IN ITAWAMBA COUNTY AT 355 PM 
THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY MOVE
NEAR VINA...GOOD SPRINGS...AND ALLWOOD IN FRANKLIN COUNTY WITHIN THE
NEXT 30 TO 45 MINUTES.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM LWINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson, Shelby53 min
Jul 3, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMorgan63 min
Jul 3, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone, Madison69 min
Jul 3, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount, Jefferson, St. Clair47 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.