Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 8:12 PM CDT for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1995, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumter County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 100113 RRA SVRBHM ALC119-100200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 812 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SUMTER COUNTY AT 810 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN SUMTER COUNTY NEAR EMELLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE LIVINGSTON AND YORK COMMUNITIES BETWEEN 830 AND 900 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY ZRAIN. 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 9, 3:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 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, 5 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 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, 3 hours 15 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, 2 hours 37 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, 2 hours 33 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, 1 hour 21 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, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 53 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.