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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 442, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 11, 1995Chambers County, Randolph County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 1995, 6:24 AM CST for Chambers County, Randolph County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 11, 1995, 6:24 AM CST (12:24 UTC)
Expired
Nov 11, 1995, 7:15 AM CST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chambers County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 1995-11-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-11-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 586 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
586 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
870 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Nov 11, 5:23 AM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
 515 AM CST SAT NOV 11 1995

THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN EXTREME NORTHWEST ALABAMA...

LAUDERDALE...COLBERT...FRANKLIN...MARION...AND LAMAR.

SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY A THUNDERSTORM MAY CONTINUE IN THE AREA DURING THE
NEXT HALF HOUR OR SO...BUT THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF
THE AREA WITH NO MORE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS SYSTEM.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 11, 3:32 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert, Franklin58 min
Nov 11, 3:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar, Marion64 min
Nov 11, 4:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette, Pickens49 min
Nov 11, 6:15 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb, Hale, Perry45 min
Nov 11, 6:33 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarengo27 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.