Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 1995, 9:56 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Cleburne County, Alabama. It was in force for 19 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 9:56 AM CDT (14:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, AL, Cleburne County, AL
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:00 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1082 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 221456 TORBHM ALC029-019-221515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 956 AM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...NORTHERN CLEBURNE COUNTY IN NORTH ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY AT 954 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO NEAR SPRING GARDEN AND BORDEN SPRINGS. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR CLEBURNE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 30 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.