Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1987, 5:59 PM CDT for Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1987, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1987, 6:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marengo County, AL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1053 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 052309 COR
SVRBHM
ALC091-060000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
559 PM CDT WED AUG 5 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...SOUTHERN MARENGO
AT 555 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST
MARENGO COUNTY JUST EAST OF DIXONS MILLS. THIS STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY
TO THE WEST AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF MARENGO COUNTY
DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Aug 5, 12:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1210 PM CDT WED AUG 05 1987 AT 1205 PN CDT WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA. A SHORT LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 20 MILES WEST OF GREENVILLE TO CLAYTON ALABAMA. THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY WITHIN THE HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND SOME HAIL.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:59 PM CDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 345 PM CDT WED AUG 5 1987 AT 335PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A SHORT LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA BETWEEN CLANTON AND MONROEVILLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER WILCOX COUNTY JUST EAST OF CAMDEN. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE..A FEW INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER...ELM'ORE...MONTGOMERY... BUTLER AND CRENSHAW COUNTIES. PERSONS NEAR THESE STORMS MAY EXPECT LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN... VERY INTENSE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 5:49 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 545 PM CDT WED AUG 5 1987 AT 545PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MID WAY BETWEEN LINDEN AND CAMDEN IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THIS THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE WEST AND HAIL WAS ALSO INDICATED BY RADAR. PERSONS NEAR THIS STORM CAN EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...VERY INTENSE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...AND HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 36 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.