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Tornado Warning 67, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 4, 1995Winston County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1995, 9:18 PM CDT for Winston County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 1995, 9:18 PM CDT (02:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Winston County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2359 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 9.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 050220
TORBHM
ALC133-050300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
918 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...WINSTON COUNTY
 
AT 918 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS MARION COUNTY IN THE WHITEHOUSE AND BRILLIANT
AREAS. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT TORNADOES ARE LIKELY WITH THESE
STORMS. THE STORMS HAVE INCREASE IN FORWARD MOVMENT AND ARE MOVING EAST
AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THIS PRESENT SPEED AND DIRECTION THE STORMS
WILL AFFECT HALEYVILLE DURING THE NEXT 10 MINUTES. THE STORMS WILL ALSO
AFFECT NATURAL BRIDGE AND DOUBLE SPRINGS IN THE NEXT 15 TO 20 MINUTES.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILA.BLE.  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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	52 min
Jul 4, 9:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marion	44 min
Jul 4, 9:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Franklin	38 min
Jul 4, 9:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lawrence	65 min
Jul 4, 9:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Winston	35 min
Jul 4, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone, Morgan	57 min
Jul 4, 10:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lawrence	32 min
Jul 5, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	28 min
Jul 5, 5:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette	31 min
Jul 5, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	42 min
Jul 5, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Winston	33 min
Jul 5, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cullman	49 min
Jul 5, 6:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	25 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.