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Tornado Warning 78, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 1995, 12:51 PM CDT for Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1995, 12:51 PM CDT (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1995, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marengo County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 091752 TORBHM ALC091-091845- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1251 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...MARENGO COUNTY AT 1250 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT A TORNADO IS LIKELY WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MYRTLEWOOD. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WARNING REPLACE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR MARENGO COUNTY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THbIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. 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 9, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 9:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 44 min |
| Jul 9, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 59 min |
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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.