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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 7, 1995Morgan County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 1995, 4:28 PM CST for Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 1995, 4:28 PM CST (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 1995, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Morgan County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 7, 5:10 PM CST	Tornado F0	Lacey'S Springs, AL	Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off one house and damaged a barn at Eva. What was believed to be a small tornado touched down on Highway 36 just west of Lacey's Springs damaging a house, a barn, and a shed as well as downing numerous trees and power lines.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHSV 072227
TORHSV
ALC103-072330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
428 PM CST TUE MAR 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CST
...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...MORGAN COUNTY
 
AT 425 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM
WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN CULLMAN COUNTY ALABAMA.
 
MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO MORGAN COUNTY NEAR FALKVILLE WITHIN
THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.
 
 
 
 
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 0OF
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
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, 3:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	34 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, 4:39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.