Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1995, 4:44 PM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1995, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscaloosa County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 112145 RRA SVRBHM ALC125-112215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 444 PM CDT TUE APR 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...TUSCALOOSA COUNTY AT 442 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TUSCALOOSA. HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRI8CAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. &
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
Local storm report, Apr 11, 12:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1230 PM CDT TUE APR 11 1995 ELMORE COUNTY AL...AT 1130 AM CDT A TORNADO WAS SPOTTED NEAR HWY 14E IN ELMORE COUNTY APPROACHING WETUMPKA...POWER LINES DOWN. TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT. PUBLIC REPORT THRU PRATTVILLE 911. ALSO ONE REPORT OF ACTUAL TOUCHDOWN NEAR HWY 111 AND HWY 14 INTERSECTION.
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 2:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
ALZALL-112100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 200 CDT TUE APR 11 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 190 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF ALABAMA. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 189 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. AT THE PRESENT TIME...NO WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR ANY PORTION OF ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 2:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>050-057-058-060-065>069-112105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 207 PM CDT TUE APR 11 1995 ...ALL WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA ARE NO LONGER IN EFFECT... AT 2:00 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAINSHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA. THE SYSTEM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST INTO GEORGIA AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
Local storm report, Apr 11, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
345 PM CDT TUE APR 11 1995
11:05 AM CDT SHELBY COUNTY
A MOBILE HOME WAS COMPLETELY DEROOFED AND TWO OTHER
MOBILE HOMES WERE DAMAGED IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST SHELBY
COUNTY ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHELBY. THERE WERE
NO INJURIES. BASED ON A STORM SURVEY AND REPORTS FROM
PEOPLE THERE IT WAS MOST LIKELY A STRAIGHT-LINE WIND
EVENT.Local storm report, Apr 11, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
345 PM CDT TUE APR 11 1995
11:05 AM CDT SHELBY COUNTY
A MOBILE HOME WAS COMPLETELY DEROOFED AND TWO OTHER
MOBILE HOMES WERE DAMAGED IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST SHELBY
COUNTY ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHELBY. THERE WERE
NO INJURIES. BASED ON A STORM SURVEY AND REPORTS FROM
PEOPLE THERE IT WAS MOST LIKELY A STRAIGHT-LINE WIND
EVENT.Local storm report, Apr 11, 3:45 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
345 PM CDT TUE APR 11 1995
11:05 AM CDT SHELBY COUNTY
A MOBILE HOME WAS COMPLETELY DEROOFED AND TWO OTHER
MOBILE HOMES WERE DAMAGED IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST SHELBY
COUNTY ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHELBY. THERE WERE
NO INJURIES. BASED ON A STORM SURVEY AND REPORTS FROM
PEOPLE THERE IT WAS MOST LIKELY A STRAIGHT-LINE WIND
EVENT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 11:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 40 min |
| Apr 11, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 46 min |
| Apr 11, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 63 min |
| Apr 11, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Etowah | 47 min |
| Apr 11, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 40 min |
| Apr 11, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 65 min |
| Apr 11, 1:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 28 min |
| Apr 11, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 30 min |
| Apr 11, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 61 min |
| Apr 11, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Apr 11, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 18 min |
| Apr 11, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 51 min |
| Apr 11, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Etowah | 40 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.