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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 436, NWS Birmingham, AL

October 27, 1995Lee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 4:44 PM CDT for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 1995, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-369 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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, Oct 27, 4:16 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton34 min
Oct 27, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale, Marengo35 min
Oct 27, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarengo15 min
Oct 27, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXAutauga, Elmore44 min
Oct 27, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery30 min
Oct 27, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXDallas42 min
Oct 27, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock35 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.