Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 1995, 7:40 PM CST for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 1995, 7:40 PM CST (01:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 1995, 8:35 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Limestone County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 210139 RRA SVRHSV ALC083-210245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 740 PM CST MON MAR 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CST ... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...LIMESTONE COUNTY AT 738 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO LIMESTONE COUNTY ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED LARGE HAIL IN LAUDERDALE COUNTY EARLIER. MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 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 20, 7:18 PM CST, 22 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-210220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 718 PM CST MON MAR 20 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL MIDNIGHT.. AT 718 PM SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST ALABAMA INTO NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. THE LEADING EDGE EXTENDED FROM NEAR MUSCLE SHOALS SOUTHWEST TO JUST NORTH OF TUPELO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BREIF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY HAIL.
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 7:18 PM CST, 22 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-210220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 718 PM CST MON MAR 20 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL MIDNIGHT.. AT 718 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST ALABAMA INTO NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. THE LEADING EDGE EXTENDED FROM NEAR MUSCLE SHOALS SOUTHWEST TO JUST NORTH OF TUPELO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BREIF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY HAIL.
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 7:19 PM CST, 21 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-210220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 718 PM CST MON MAR 20 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL MIDNIGHT.. AT 718 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST ALABAMA INTO NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. THE LEADING EDGE EXTENDED FROM NEAR MUSCLE SHOALS SOUTHWEST TO JUST NORTH OF TUPELO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BREIF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 60 min |
| Mar 20, 8:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 55 min |
| Mar 20, 8:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 41 min |
| Mar 20, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 55 min |
| Mar 20, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 57 min |
| Mar 20, 9:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 47 min |
| Mar 20, 9:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 48 min |
| Mar 20, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Marion, Walker | 69 min |
| Mar 20, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 60 min |
| Mar 20, 9:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 54 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.