Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 1995, 1:02 PM CDT for Randolph County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1995, 1:02 PM CDT (18:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1995, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph County, AL
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 111802 TORBHM ALC111-111830- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 102 PM CDT TUE APR 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...RANDOLPH COUNTY AT 102 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ASSOCIATED WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE WADLEY AREA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE OCRE...WEDOWEE...WOODLAND AND HAWK. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR RANDOLPH COUNTY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 30 min |
| Apr 11, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 61 min |
| Apr 11, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 31 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 |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.