Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 384, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 2:44 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1995, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lauderdale County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 KHSV 261944 RRA SVRHSV ALC077-262045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 244 PM CDT WED JUL 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY AT 242 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT HUNTSVILLE AND LOCAL HAM RADIO SPOTTERS SHOWED A POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR COURTLAND IN NORTH LAWRENCE COUNTY MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. 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
Local storm report, Jul 26, 8:56 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 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 EMASpecial weather statement, Jul 26, 2:20 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
ALZ036-038-040-042-044-054-057-262120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 220 PM CDT WED JUL 26 1995 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM CDT FOR DALLAS AND WILCOX COUNTIES.... AT 2PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHCENTRAL CHAMBERS...SOUTHWEST MONTGOMERY...NEAR RAMER...SOUTHEAST...NEAR FT DEPOSIT...LOWNDES AND SOUTHCENTRAL...NEAR CAMDEN...WILCOX COUNTIES. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHCENTRAL COOSA AND NORTHEAST BUTLER COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST AT 25 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 26, 2:21 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
ALZ036-038-040-042-044-054-057-262120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 220 PM CDT WED JUL 26 1995 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM CDT FOR DALLAS AND WILCOX COUNTIES.... AT 2PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHCENTRAL CHAMBERS...SOUTHWEST MONTGOMERY...NEAR RAMER...SOUTHEAST...NEAR FT DEPOSIT...LOWNDES AND SOUTHCENTRAL...NEAR CAMDEN...WILCOX COUNTIES. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHCENTRAL COOSA AND NORTHEAST BUTLER COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST AT 25 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens | 48 min |
| Jul 25, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 59 min |
| Jul 25, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 24 min |
| Jul 25, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 59 min |
| Jul 25, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 43 min |
| Jul 26, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 43 min |
| Jul 26, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion | 51 min |
| Jul 26, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 51 min |
| Jul 26, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone | 62 min |
| Jul 26, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 33 min |
| Jul 26, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 43 min |
| Jul 26, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 49 min |
| Jul 26, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 41 min |
| Jul 26, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 66 min |
| Jul 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Etowah, St. Clair | 61 min |
| Jul 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 61 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.