Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 1995, 3:11 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1995, 3:11 PM CST (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1995, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscaloosa County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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
- 231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 072110 TORBHM ALC125-072145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 311 PM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...TUSCALOOSA COUNTY AT 307 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ASSOCIATED WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY... IN THE WINDHAM SPRINGS AREA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH. THIS WARNING UPGRADES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TO A TORNADO WARNING FOR TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Lawrence | 68 min |
| Mar 6, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 39 min |
| Mar 7, 2:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 2:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 10 min |
| Mar 7, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 65 min |
| Mar 7, 2:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 3:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 68 min |
| Mar 7, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 3:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 51 min |
| Mar 7, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 15 min |
| Mar 7, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 32 min |
| Mar 7, 4:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 67 min |
| Mar 7, 4:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 33 min |
| Mar 7, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Shelby | 59 min |
| Mar 7, 4:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 4:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Shelby | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 5:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 5:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 58 min |
| Mar 7, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 55 min |
| Mar 7, 5:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 63 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.