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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 22, 1990Marengo County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1990, 6:57 PM CDT for Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 1990, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1990, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 48 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, 12.0 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
432 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 1990

424 PM ...ROTATING WALL CLOUD SIGHTED BY TRAINED OBSERVER EAST OF
          IRONDALE IN EXTREME EASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY...BRO%KE UP
          WITH NO FUNNEL SIGHTED.
429 PM ...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT COTTONDALE...TUSCALOOSA CUUNTY.

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 5:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 5:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 5:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 6:21 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 6:41 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 6:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	23 min
Jun 22, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	34 min
Jun 22, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Tuscaloosa	43 min
Jun 22, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	42 min
Jun 22, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	48 min
Jun 22, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Hale	37 min
Jun 22, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	29 min
Jun 22, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	40 min
Jun 22, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Hale	28 min
Jun 22, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Perry	35 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.