Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1990, 9:13 PM CDT for Shelby County, Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1990, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1990, 9:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Shelby County, AL, Talladega 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 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1921 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 030216 SVRBHM ALC117-121-030315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 913 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...SOUTHEASTERN SHELBY COUNTY...SOUTHERN TALLADEGA COUNTY AT 912PM WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR COLUMBIANA IN SOUTHEASTERN SHELBY COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING MARBLE TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WILL BE AFFECTING CHILDERSBURG AND SYLACAUGA IN THE NEXT HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK> SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Jun 2, 6:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
ALZ006-008-009-030300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 656 PM CDT SAT JUN 02 1990 AT 645 PM RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR TUSCALOOSA SOUTHWEST TO MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DETECTED IN THE BIRMINGHAM AREA. THE HEAVIEST STORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF TUSCALOOSA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING RAPIDLY EASTWARD AND WILL AFFECT THE TUSCALOOSA AREA IN THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG GUSeTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SOME SMALL HAIL MAY ACOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST AROUND 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 7:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-020115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 730 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990 AT 725 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A CLUSTER OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND MOST OF CRENSHOW COUNTY ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOW LITTLE MOVEMENT THEREFORE SOME FLOODING OF LOW PLACES WILL OCCUR ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 7:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
ALZ006-008-009-030300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 745 PM CDT SAT JUN 02 1990 AT 740 PM RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHWEST JEFFERSON COUNTY TO NORTHERN HALE COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN EASTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF VANCE...ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS JUST EAST OF MOUNDVILLE IN NORTHERN HALE COUNTY. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN TUSCALOOSA WHEN THESE STORMS MOVED THROUGH THAT AREA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AS WELL AS SMALL HAIL MAY ACOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST AROUND 35 MPH. BIBB...SHELBY...AND SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO.
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.