Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 412, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1995, 2:36 PM CDT for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1995, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Limestone County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 081937 RRA SVRHSV ALC083-082045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 236 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 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 ...LIMESTONE COUNTY AT 232 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HUNTSVILLE INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF LIMESTONE COUNTY FROM LESTER TO ARDMORE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR LAUDERDALE COUNTY UNTIL 315 PM CDT...AND FOR COLBERT COUNTY UNTIL 330 PM. 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 RAIrNS 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, Aug 8, 1:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-082030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 128 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995 AT 1:20 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY INDICATED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN AUTAUGA...ELMORE...BUTLER...MONTGOMERY...MACON..AND LOWNDES COUNTIES. THIS AREA OF RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 15-20 MILES PER HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 65 min |
| Aug 8, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 59 min |
| Aug 8, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 68 min |
| Aug 8, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 61 min |
| Aug 8, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 67 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.