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Tornado Warning 88, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 4, 1995, 11:21 PM CDT for St. Clair County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 1995, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 1995, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County St. Clair County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 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 050423 TORBHM ALC115-050500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1121 PM CDT WED OCT 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...ST. CLAIR COUNTY AT 1119 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS RECEIVED A REPORT OF A TORNADO IN THE PELL CITY AREA...WITH DAMAGE REPORTED IN THE PAST FEW MINUTES. THIS TORNADO WILL BE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH...AND MAY AFFECT COMMUNITIES NORTH OF PELL CITY DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. REMEMBER...HURRICANES CAN SPAWN BRIEF TORNADOES AT ANY TIME! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 4, 10:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
ALZ023-032>035-039>042-050715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1013 PM CDT WED OCT 4 1995 THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... TUSCALOOSA...HALE...BIB...CHILTON...PERRY...AUTAUGA...DALLAS...MARENGO.. AND LOWNDES. EVEN THOUGH THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFEC...CONTINUE THE HIGH WIND WARNING AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Oct 4, 10:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
ALZ023-032>035-039>042-050715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1013 PM CDT WED OCT 4 1995 THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... TUSCALOOSA...HALE...BIB...CHILTON...PERRY...AUTAUGA...DALLAS...MARENGO.. AND LOWNDES. EVEN THOUGH THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFEC...CONTINUE THE HIGH WIND WARNING AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Oct 4, 10:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
ALZ023-032>035-039>042-050715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1013 PM CDT WED OCT 4 1995 THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... TUSCALOOSA...HALE...BIB...CHILTON...PERRY...AUTAUGA...DALLAS...MARENGO.. AND LOWNDES. EVEN THOUGH THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFEC...THE HIGH WIND WARNING AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN THE AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 42 min |
| Oct 4, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 47 min |
| Oct 4, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 47 min |
| Oct 4, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 64 min |
| Oct 4, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 49 min |
| Oct 5, 12:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 12:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall | 4 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.