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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 374, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 24, 1995Limestone County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1995, 6:05 PM CDT for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 1995, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Limestone County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 190 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLawrence, Morgan55 min
Jul 24, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison56 min

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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.