Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 413, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1995, 3:12 PM CDT for Marion County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1995, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 082015 RRA SVRBHM ALC093-082115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 312 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...MARION COUNTY AT 312 PM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHERN MARION COUNTY BY 320 PM...AND INTO SOUTHERN MARION COUNTY BY 340 PM. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE. 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, Aug 8, 1:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 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, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 69 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.