Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 342, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1995, 9:03 PM CDT for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1995, 9:03 PM CDT (02:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1995, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumter County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 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
- 2032 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 12, 3:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
ALZ042-057-060-122125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 322 PM CDT WED JUL 12 1995 AT 315 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY INDICATED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN LOWNDES COUNTY NEAR BRAGGS...IN BUTLER COUNTY NEAR GEORGIANA...AND IN COVINGTON COUNTY NEAR RED OAK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. 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 12, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 33 min |
| Jul 13, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 36 min |
| Jul 13, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Perry | 33 min |
| Jul 13, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Tuscaloosa | 33 min |
| Jul 13, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 31 min |
| Jul 13, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 31 min |
| Jul 13, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Tuscaloosa | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 33 min |
| Jul 13, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 30 min |
| Jul 13, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.