Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 4:53 PM CST for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1995, 4:53 PM CST (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1995, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 062254 RRA SVRBHM ALC057-075-070000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 453 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...FAYETTE COUNTY...LAMAR COUNTY AT 446PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN PICKENS COUNTY NEAR PALMETTO AND LUBBUB. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO LAMAR AND FAYETTE COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES. THE TOWNS IMMEDIATELY EFFECTED IN LAMAR COUNTY WILL BE KENNEDY AND IN FAYETTE COUNTY BELK. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED DIME SIZE HAIL AS IT MOVED ACROSS PICKENS COUNTY. 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, 2 hours 18 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, 4:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 20 min |
| Mar 6, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 27 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.