Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 7:02 PM CST for Colbert County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1995, 7:02 PM CST (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1995, 7:50 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colbert County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 070101 RRA SVRHSV ALC033-070200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 702 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CST ... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...COLBERT COUNTY AT 655 PM CST RADAR AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OF HUNTSVILLE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COLBERT COUNTY JUST TO THE NORTH OF SPRING VALLEY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. 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, 4 hours 27 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, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Lawrence | 68 min |
| Mar 7, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 39 min |
| Mar 7, 2:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 2:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 10 min |
| Mar 7, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 65 min |
| Mar 7, 2:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 3:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 68 min |
| Mar 7, 3:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 34 min |
| Mar 7, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 3:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 51 min |
| Mar 7, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 15 min |
| Mar 7, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 32 min |
| Mar 7, 4:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 67 min |
| Mar 7, 4:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 33 min |
| Mar 7, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Shelby | 59 min |
| Mar 7, 4:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 4:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Shelby | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 5:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 5:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 58 min |
| Mar 7, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 55 min |
| Mar 7, 5:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 63 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.