Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 1990, 8:24 AM CST for Randolph County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 1990, 8:24 AM CST (14:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 1990, 9:07 AM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 221429 COR SVRBHM ALC111-221515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 824 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...RANDOLPH COUNTY AT 820 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH CHAMBERS COUNTY AND WILL MOVE INTO RANDOLPH COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HALF HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD ESPECIALLY AFFECT THE ROANOKE AND ROCK MILLS AREAS. DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED EARLIER WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT AFFECTED PORTIONS OF LEE AND CHAMBERS COUNTIES. 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
Local storm report, Feb 22, 7:35 AM CST, 49 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 735 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990 PIKE COUNTY...6 30AM CST...10 MILES SOUTH OF TROY...HOUSE DAMAGED... POWER LINES DOWN. REPORT FROM HAM RADIO...SKYWARN. WARNINGS IN EFFECT...NONE. PETTIT
Local storm report, Feb 22, 7:43 AM CST, 41 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 743 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990 BARBOUR COUNTY...SOUTH OF EUFAULA...7 40AM CST...HOUSE TRAILERS OVERTURNED. REPORT FROM EUFAULA STATE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT. REFERENCE...OPP STORM...NATIONAL GUARD AMORY DAMAGED...TRAILER PARK HIT...SOME INJURIES...SCHOOLS CLOSED. REFERENCE...PIKE COUNTY STORM...REPORT OF COUPLE OF INJURIES TO OCCUPANTS OF DAMAGED HOUSE. PETTIT
Local storm report, Feb 22, 7:51 AM CST, 33 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 751 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990 HENRY COUNTY...7 25AM CST...TREES DOWN IN ABBEVILLE...REPORT FROM HENRY COUNTY EMA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT. PETTIT
Local storm report, Feb 22, 8:01 AM CST, 23 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 800 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990 HOUSTON COUNTY...7 35AM CST...POSSIBLE SMALL TORNADO...WIND DAMAGE AT TAYLOR...9 MILES SOUTH OF DOTHAN...REPORT FROM HOUSTON COUNTY EMA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT. PETTIT
Local storm report, Feb 22, 8:04 AM CST, 20 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 805 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990 HOUSTON COUNTY...7 35AM CST...BARN DAMAGED...MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED... POWER LINES DOWN...AT TAYLOR...REPORT FROM HAM RADIO. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT. PETTIT
Local storm report, Feb 22, 8:16 AM CST, 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 815 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990 LEE COUNTY...8AM CST...WINDOWS BLOWN OUT AT AUBURN PD.MES DAMAGED... 8 05AM CST...TREES DOWN AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY. REPORTS F6ROM LEE COUNTY EOC AND NWS IN AUBURN...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT. MACON COUNTY...7 35AM CST...MOBILE HOME DAMAGED AND BLOWN INTO HIGHWAY 29 NEAR TUSKEGEE. REPORT FROM LEE COUNTY EOC. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT. PETTIT
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.