Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 418, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1995, 3:37 PM CDT for Shelby County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1995, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shelby County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 14 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 082039 RRA SVRBHM ALC117-082145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 337 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SHELBY COUNTY AT 337 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN SHELBY COUNTY SOUTH OF LEEDS AND WEST OF VINCENT. THIS STORM WILL MOVE SOUTH AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD BE IN THE CHELSEA AREA BY 400 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 2 hours 9 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.
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:23 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-082225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 323 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995 AT 3:20 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY INDICATED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN AUTAUGA...LOWNDES...BUTLER...AND CRENSHAW COUNTIES. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM CENTRAL COOSA COUNTY SOUTHWARD THROUGH ELMORE COUNTY INTO EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THE RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 15-20 MILES PER HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:24 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-082225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 323 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995 AT 3:20 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY INDICATED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN AUTAUGA...LOWNDES...BUTLER...AND CRENSHAW COUNTIES. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM CENTRAL COOSA COUNTY SOUTHWARD THROUGH ELMORE COUNTY INTO EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THE RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 15-20 MILES PER HOUR.
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, 3:12 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, 3:43 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.