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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 335, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 9, 1995Cherokee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 5:02 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1995, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Cherokee County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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

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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, Jul 9, 2:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 2:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
ALZ039-040-042-044-046-092100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
258 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ALABAMA...

MARENGO..DALLAS..LOWNDES..MONTGOMERY..BULLOCK

THE WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF SOUTH ALABAMA UNTIL 600 PM.
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-092150-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
249 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 747 REMAINS jIN EFFECT UNTIL 6PMCDT..
   THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CANCALED FROM WATCH NUMBER 747
...DALLAS...MONTGOMERY...LOWNDES AND BULLOCK...
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-092150-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
249 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995

....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 747 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6PMCDT..

AT 245 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVCE RARAR AT MONTGOMERY ALAMABA INDICATED
RAIN AND RAINSHOWERS WITH  A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS
CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST RUSSELL...NORTHCENTRAL HENRY...
SOUTH COVINGTON COUNTIES.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD
BE MOVING OUT OF ALABAMA IN THE NEXT 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:57 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-100000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
457 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995

....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 747 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
6:00 PM CDT FOR MOST OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA...

AT 4:45 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY
INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER CENTRAL HENRY COUNTY.
ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED TEN MILES SOUTH OF AUBURN ON
THE BORDER OF SOUTHWEST LEE AND NORTHEAST MACON COUNTY.  BOTH
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR.

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, 9:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa60 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, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar, Pickens60 min
Jul 9, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar, Pickens59 min

Nearby

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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.