Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 1995, 2:07 PM CST for Bibb County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 1995, 2:07 PM CST (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 1995, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bibb County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 515 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 652 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 KBHM 062011 RRA SVRBHM ALC007-125-062045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ... CORRECTION TO PORTION OF COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 207 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...NORTHWESTERN BIBB COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SOUTHEASTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POTENTIALLY SEVERE THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 60 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTHEAST OF DUNCAVILLE AND WILL PASS NEAR WOODSTOCK AND VANCE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALS"O IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, Jan 6, 12:11 PM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 12:12 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 1:43 PM CST, 24 minutes before
ALZALL-062045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 143 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 NOAA WEATHER RADIO TRANSMITTING FROM MT. CHEAHA ON A FREQUENCY OF 162.475 MEGAHERTZ IS CURRENTLY OFF THE AIR. THE RADIO BROADCAST ORIGINATES AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN ALABASTER AND THEN GOES THROUGH THE MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM OF EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION. THE MICROWAVE RECEIVING ANTENNA ON THE TOWER AT MT. CHEAHA HAS BEEN DISLODGED BY THE WIND SO IT IS TURNED AWAY FROM GETTING THE PROPER SIGNAL. CORRECTIVE ACTION HAS BEEN REQUESTED AND THE WEATHER RADIO WILL BE RETURNED TO THE AIR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 1:48 PM CST, 19 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-062050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 148 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING OUT OF EASTERN MISSISSIPPI AT 150 PM AND WILL MOVE ACROSS LAMAR AND PICKENS DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE LINE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WIND AND COLUMBUS, MS, HAD A WIND GUST TO 47 MILES AN HOUR AS THE LINE MOVED THROUGH THAT LOCATION. BESIDES THE WIND, HAIL AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE. PEOPLE SHOULD REMAIN INSIDE. IF POSSIBLE, PICK UP LOOSE ITEMS OUTSIDE SO THAT THEY CAN'T BE PICKED UP BY THE WIND AND BECOME AIRBORNE MISSILES.
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 1:50 PM CST, 17 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>047-049-050-054-057-058-060-065>069-062155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 150 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7:00 PM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER WESTERN ALABAMA AT 1:25 PM. THE AREA IS MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 55 MILES AN HOUR AND COULD AFFECT DALLAS COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS UP TO 47 MILES AN HOUR IN EASTERN MISSISSIPPI AND COULD POSSIBLY BE ACCOMPANIED BY HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 1:57 PM CST, 10 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>047-049-050-054-057-058-060-065>069-062155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 150 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7:00 PM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER WESTERN ALABAMA AT 1:25 PM. THE AREA IS MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 55 MILES AN HOUR AND COULD AFFECT DALLAS COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS UP TO 47 MILES AN HOUR IN EASTERN MISSISSIPPI AND COULD POSSIBLY BE ACCOMPANIED BY HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 9:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 28 min |
| Jan 6, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 26 min |
| Jan 6, 1:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale | 50 min |
| Jan 6, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 42 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.