Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 3, 1990, 5:02 PM CST for Pickens County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 1990, 5:02 PM CST (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 1990, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pickens 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 93 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 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 032305 SVRBHM ALC107-032345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 502 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...PICKENS COUNTY A 500 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST PICKENS COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE HIGH GUSTY WINDS...ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MO~VE 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, Feb 3, 4:47 PM CST, 15 minutes before
ALZALL-032330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 545 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ALABAMA AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 10 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 545 PM CST SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME EASTERN MISSISSIPPI MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE LINE WILL BE MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA BY 5 PM CST. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO PICKENS COUNTY OF ALABAMA BY 5 PM CST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS I]N WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH WEST ALABAMA SHOULD BE PREPAIRED TO SEEK SHELTER AS THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 4:48 PM CST, 14 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-040000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 445 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM FOR AUTAUGA...LOWNDES... DALLAS...WILCOX AND BUTLER COUNTIES... AT 440 PM CST RADAR AT MONTGOMERY INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA FROM ANDALUSIA TO EUFAULA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THROUGH NORTHWEST ALABAMaA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER ALERT TONIGHT AND LISTEN NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 4:53 PM CST, 9 minutes before
ALZALL-032330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...COR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 445 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ALABAMA AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 10 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 445 PM CST SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME EASTERN MISSISSIPPI MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE LINE WILL BE MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA BY 5 PM CST. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO PICKENS COUNTY OF ALABAMA BY 5 PM CST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.m PERSONS IN WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH WEST ALABAMA SHOULD BE PREPAIRED TO SEEK SHELTER AS THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 5:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 4 hr |
| Feb 3, 5:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Feb 3, 5:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 47 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.