Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 1995, 5:32 AM CST for DeKalb County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1995, 5:32 AM CST (11:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1995, 6:15 AM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County DeKalb County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 660 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 161137 COR TORHSV ALC049-161215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED TO ADD MORE TEXT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL 532 AM CST THU FEB 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...DEKALB COUNTY AT 532 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER WEST DE KALB COUNTY JUST EAST OF GUNTERSVILLE. RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM MAY BE PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILE AN HOUR AND WILL EFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF FYFFE AND FORT PAYNE. THE STORM WILL MOVE OVER FORT PAYNE IN BY AROUND 6 AM. THIS IS THE SAME STORM THAT PRODUCED A TORNADO IN MARSHALL COUNTY. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 40 min |
| Feb 15, 10:48 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Madison, Morgan | 4 hr |
| Feb 15, 10:48 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Franklin | 4 hr |
| Feb 15, 11:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 49 min |
| Feb 16, 2:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Franklin | 68 min |
| Feb 16, 2:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 68 min |
| Feb 16, 2:49 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 56 min |
| Feb 16, 2:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 56 min |
| Feb 16, 3:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 63 min |
| Feb 16, 3:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 63 min |
| Feb 16, 3:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 63 min |
| Feb 16, 3:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 60 min |
| Feb 16, 3:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 66 min |
| Feb 16, 3:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 66 min |
| Feb 16, 4:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 29 min |
| Feb 16, 4:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 68 min |
| Feb 16, 4:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 50 min |
| Feb 16, 5:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 45 min |
| Feb 16, 5:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 42 min |
| Feb 16, 5:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 53 min |
| Feb 16, 5:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 31 min |
| Feb 16, 6:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Marshall | 53 min |
| Feb 16, 6:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 48 min |
| Feb 16, 6:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 29 min |
| Feb 16, 7:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 35 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.