Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 322, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 5:37 PM CDT for Jackson County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 6:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1556 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 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 KHSV 042238 RRA SVRHSV ALC071-042345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 537 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...JACKSON COUNTY AT 536 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER JACKSON COUNTY NEAR DUTTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MARSHALL COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DE ADLY 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, Jul 4, 12:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
ALZ040-042-041855- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1253 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 AT 1245 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS POPPING UP ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EXITING WILCOX COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL BE APPROACHING DALLAS AND LOWNDES COUNTIES SHORTLY. 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. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN. YOU SHOULD WATCH FOR PONDING ON AREA ROADWAYS AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE HYDROPLANING.
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 1:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
ALZ047-041920- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 116 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 AT 110 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF LEE COUNTY. THESE STORMS SHOULD EXIT ALABAMA AND MOVE INTO HARRIS COUNTY GEORGIA WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES STRONG GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 1:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
ALZ041-041945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 144 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 AT 1340 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL ALABAMA WERE OVER CENTRAL AUTAUGA COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN. YOU SHOULD WATCH FOR PONDING ON AREA ROADWAYS AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE HYDROPLANING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 28 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.