Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 338, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 7:28 PM CDT for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1995, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 3529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 3:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 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 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, 4 hours 17 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, 2 hours 31 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.
Local storm report, Jul 9, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
5:35 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
530 PM CDT HEADLAND AL TREES AND POWER LINES
7/09/95 HENRY DOWN...HOUSE STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING AND CAUGHT ON
FIRE. BOB WILL...EMA
DIRECTOR.Local storm report, Jul 9, 5:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
5:35 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
530 PM CDT HEADLAND AL TREES AND POWER LINES
7/09/95 HENRY DOWN...HOUSE STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING AND CAUGHT ON
FIRE. BOB WILL...EMA
DIRECTOR.Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:51 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-100150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 651 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 755 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1:00 AM CDT FOR MOST OF WESTERN ALABAMA... AT 6:45 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND CHOCTAW COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA HAS MOVED SOUTHEAST INTO THE FLORIDA PANHADLE. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DONT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 48 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.