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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 9, 1995Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 9:00 AM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1995, 9:00 AM CDT (14:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1995, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 1995-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 278 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 1995-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
278 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 8:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette45 min
Jul 9, 9:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette33 min
Jul 9, 11:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter47 min
Jul 9, 11:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarengo49 min
Jul 9, 12:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter46 min
Jul 9, 12:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarengo53 min
Jul 9, 12:51 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMarengo54 min
Jul 9, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter44 min
Jul 9, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarengo36 min
Jul 9, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCherokee43 min
Jul 9, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar, Pickens60 min
Jul 9, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar, Pickens59 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.