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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 1995, 8:30 AM CDT for Blount County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 8:30 AM CDT (13:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blount County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1475 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 221330 TORBHM ALC009-221400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 830 AM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...BLOUNT COUNTY AT 828 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN BLOUNT COUNTY IN THE ONEONTA AND REMLAP AREAS. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 22, 8:13 AM CDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
0812 AM CDT SAT APR 22 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0750 AM SUMMITON AL TORNADO REPORTED BY EMA.
04/22/95 WALKER PEOPLE REPORTED TRAPPED IN
CARS AND MOBILE HOMES.The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 6:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Marion | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 6:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 7:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 69 min |
| Apr 22, 7:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 7:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 53 min |
| Apr 22, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 45 min |
| Apr 22, 7:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 8:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 58 min |
| Apr 22, 8:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 8:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 8:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 8:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 8:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 8:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 9:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 9:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 9:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 15 min |
| Apr 22, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 9:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Cleburne | 19 min |
| Apr 22, 10:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 10:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 48 min |
Nearby
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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.