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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 6:26 PM CDT for Colbert County, Franklin County, Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colbert County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHSV 182326 TORHSV ALC033-059-077-190030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 626 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...COLBERT COUNTY...FRANKLIN COUNTY...LAUDERDALE COUNTY AT 620 PM CDT RADAR AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT HUNTSVILLE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN FRANKLIN COUNTY NEAR VINA. ANOTHER SVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN WESTERN LAUDERDALE COUNTY NEAR WATERLOO AND WRIGHT. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MILES PER HOUR. ...THIS IS AN EXTENTION OF THE TORNADO WARNING IN FRANKLIN COUNTY... ...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MADISON COUNTY TIL 645 PM CDT... ...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR JACKSON COUNTY TIL 715 PM CDT... 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert | 64 min |
| May 18, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 39 min |
| May 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 60 min |
| May 18, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert | 64 min |
| May 18, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 65 min |
| May 18, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 47 min |
| May 18, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 43 min |
| May 18, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 63 min |
| May 18, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 55 min |
| May 18, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 51 min |
| May 18, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Marengo | 66 min |
| May 18, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 69 min |
| May 18, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 57 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.