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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 382, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 26, 1995Lamar County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 1:17 PM CDT for Lamar County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1995, 1:17 PM CDT (18:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lamar County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1201 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

Local storm report, Jul 26, 8:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
1350 AM CDT TUE JUL 26 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

600 PM CDT CAMP SPRING            AL      E50-60 MPH WIND. TREES DOWN
7/25/95    HENRY                          ROOF OFF 2 BARNS. AWNING OFF
                                          RESIDENT.
                                          BY EMA

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, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale59 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, 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

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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.