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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 6, 1995Lamar County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 4:53 PM CST for Lamar County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 1995, 4:53 PM CST (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1995, 5:42 PM CST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lamar County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 122 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 231 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 3:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene28 min
Mar 6, 4:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPickens20 min
Mar 6, 4:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPickens27 min
Mar 6, 4:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette67 min
Mar 6, 5:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarion55 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.