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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 6, 1995Pickens County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 4:10 PM CST for Pickens County, Alabama. It was in force for 20 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 1995, 4:10 PM CST (22:10 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1995, 4:30 PM CST
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Pickens County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 122 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KBHM 062216 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC107-062230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION TO EXPIRATION TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
410 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...PICKENS COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
PICKENS COUNTY NEAR ALICEVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AROUND 25
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 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, Mar 6, 2:35 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

ALZ011>029-031>035-039-062140-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
235 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995

AT 230 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING
RAPIDLY ALONG THE ALABAMA/MISSISSIPPI NEAR SUMTER AND CHOCTAW
COUNTIES...STRETCHING INTO SOUTHERN MARENGO COUNTY.  THE STORMS WERE
MOVING NORTH AROUND 25 MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND STRENGTHEN
THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 3:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene	28 min
Mar 6, 4:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	27 min
Mar 6, 4:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	67 min
Mar 6, 4:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	49 min
Mar 6, 5:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	55 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.