Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1995, 6:16 PM CDT for Fayette County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1995, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1171 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 132315 SVRBHM ALC057-125-132345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 616 PM CDT THU JUL 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY...TUSCALOOSA COUNTY AT 615 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN AND NORTHERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. ONE SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED NORTH OF SAMANTHA...AND WAS MOVING WEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY BY 630 PM...AND WILL BE AFFECTING CONCORD AND NEWTONVILLE. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY... EAST OF BUHL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING ELROD AND BUHL BY 630 PM. STRONG WIND AND HAIL REMAIN LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. 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.
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 12, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 27 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, 6:27 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
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.