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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 15, 1995Greene County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1995, 2:41 PM CST for Greene County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 min.

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The facts

Issued
Mar 15, 1995, 2:41 PM CST (20:41 UTC)
Expired
Mar 15, 1995, 3:15 PM CST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Greene County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 1995-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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 1995-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 2:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPerry40 min

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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.