Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 5:03 PM CDT for Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1995, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Talladega County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 1004 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 212203 RRA SVRBHM ALC121-212230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 503 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...NORTHERN TALLADEGA COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN SHELBY COUNTY INDICATED A POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN TALLADEGA COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF LINCOLN MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THERE WERE POSITIVE INDICATIONS THAT WIND GUSTS TO OVER 55 MILES ARE HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THE PRESENT MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORM WILL TAKE IT ALONG INTERSTATE 20. 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 STOvRM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 21, 12:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-211955- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1252 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 AT 1250 PM CDT WEATHER RADARS SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE FROM CENTREVILLE IN BIBB COUNTY TO LINDEN IN MARENGO COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER LOWNDES COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA AND AROUND OPP AND ENTERPRISE OF SOUTH ALABAMA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN THE SELMA AREA IN ABOUT 2 HOURS. MOVEMENT ON ALL THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 12:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-211955- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1252 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 AT 1250 PM CDT WEATHER RADARS SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE FROM CENTREVILLE IN BIBB COUNTY TO LINDEN IN MARENGO COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER LOWNDES COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA AND AROUND OPP AND ENTERPRISE OF SOUTH ALABAMA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN THE SELMA AREA IN ABOUT 2 HOURS. MOVEMENT ON ALL THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 2:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-212135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 233 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 AT 225 PM CDT WEATHER RADARS SHOWED A SCATTERED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM ROCKFORD IN COOSA COUNTY TO JUST WEST OF MONTGOMERY TO MONROEVILLE IN MONROE COUNTY. ONE OF THESE THNDERSTORMS HAD A RAINFALL RATE OF 3 INCHES AN HOUR AS IT MOVED THROUGH THE SARDIS AND ORREVILLE AREAS OF DALLAS COUNTY. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE MONTGOMERY AND PRATTVILLE AREAS AROUND 3 PM CDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AROUND ENTERPRISE AND DOTHAN. 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 3:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-212130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 328 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 AT 320 PM CDT WEATHER RADARS SHOWED A SCATTERED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH ALABAMA FROM TROY TO NEAR OPP AND BREWTON. RADARS INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL RATES AND GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE AROUND MONTGOMERY AND MOVING INTO THE LAKE MARTIN AREA. MOVEMENT ON ALL THESE STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT NEARLY 30 MPH. 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 4:35 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
ALZ047-050-212335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 435 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 AT 1625CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RARAR AT MONTGOMERY ALABAMA INDICATED WIDE SPREAD LIGHT RAIN WITH EMBEDDED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS LEE COUNTY IN EASTCENTRAL ALABAMA. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER BARBOUR COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Morgan | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 60 min |
| Jul 21, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Marshall | 56 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.