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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 377, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 25, 1995Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 9:16 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1995, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 559 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 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
559 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KHSV 260216 RRA
SVRHSV
ALC077-260315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
916 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY
 
AT 915 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR CLOVERDALE IN LAWRENCE COUNTY.
 
THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIORj 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 25, 5:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
ALZ049-252355-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
553 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 1995

AT 550 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN PIKE COUNTY NEAR CHINA GROVE MOVING TO THE
SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILE PER HOUR.

STRONG GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene, Pickens48 min
Jul 25, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert, Franklin, Lawrence65 min
Jul 25, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale24 min
Jul 25, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone59 min
Jul 25, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWalker43 min
Jul 26, 1:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar43 min
Jul 26, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette, Lamar, Marion51 min
Jul 26, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale61 min
Jul 26, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXClay51 min
Jul 26, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLawrence, Limestone62 min
Jul 26, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale, Marengo, Sumter46 min
Jul 26, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWinston33 min
Jul 26, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCullman48 min
Jul 26, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison43 min
Jul 26, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount49 min
Jul 26, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTalladega52 min
Jul 26, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarshall41 min
Jul 26, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXClay66 min
Jul 26, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCalhoun, Etowah, St. Clair61 min
Jul 26, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTalladega61 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.