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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 445, NWS Birmingham, AL

December 19, 1995Chambers County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 19, 1995, 1:24 AM CST for Chambers County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 19, 1995, 1:24 AM CST (07:24 UTC)
Expired
Dec 19, 1995, 2:00 AM CST
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Chambers County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 00:00Z on 1995-12-19Temperature 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 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 00:00Z on 1995-12-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 531 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
531 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
501 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 190725 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC017-190800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
124 AM CST TUE DEC 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...CHAMBERS COUNTY
 
AT 121 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN CHAMBERS
COUNTY JUST WEST OF LAFAYETTE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 40
MPH...AND WILL AFFECT THE WHITE PLAINS...FIVE POINTS...AND STROUD AREAS
NORTH OF LAFAYETTE BY 200 AM.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 18, 8:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas49 min
Dec 19, 1:34 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBarbour26 min
Dec 19, 1:46 AM CSTTornado WarningBMXBarbour29 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.