Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1995, 7:52 PM CST for Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 1995, 7:52 PM CST (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1995, 8:39 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marengo County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBHM 280152 RRA SVRBHM ALC091-280245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 752 PM CST MON FEB 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...MARENGO COUNTY AT 748 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHERN MARENGO COUNTY BETWEEN DEMOPOLIS AND LINDEN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR 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, Feb 27, 4:22 PM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-280025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 422 PM CST MON FEB 27 1995 AT 415 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD SHOWERS ACROSS ALL NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS OVER WESTERN MISSISSIPPI WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS LAUDERDALE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THIS STORM HAD PRODUCED HAIL IN MISSISSIPPI AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE MONITORED BY BIRMINGHAM RADAR. THE CENTRAL ALABAMA COUNTIES OF GREENE...HALE...AND MARENGO CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS AS WELL AS CONTINUED SHOWERS. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LASTEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 6:17 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-280215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 617 PM CST MON FEB 27 1995 AT 615 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD SHOWERS ACROSS ALL NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS OVER WESTERN ALABAMA ACROSS PICKENS...LAMAR...MARENGO...AND GREENE COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY SINCE ENTERING ALABAMA BUT STILL ARE CAPABLE OF GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL...AND LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...RAINFALL AMOUNTS DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS AVERAGED AROUND ONE INCH OVER NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA WITH A MAXIMUM OF AROUND TWO INCHES IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING AND TUESDAY AND SHOULD BECOME MORE NUMEROUS OVER SOUTH ALABAMA TUESDAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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.