Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 9, 1990, 10:22 PM CST for Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 9, 1990, 10:22 PM CST (04:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 9, 1990, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, AL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 10:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Madison, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 61 min |
| Feb 9, 8:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 30 min |
| Feb 9, 8:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 34 min |
| Feb 9, 9:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 37 min |
| Feb 9, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 30 min |
| Feb 9, 9:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 47 min |
| Feb 9, 10:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 27 min |
| Feb 9, 10:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 37 min |
| Feb 9, 11:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 28 min |
| Feb 9, 11:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 4 hr |
| Feb 9, 11:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 47 min |
| Feb 9, 11:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 40 min |
| Feb 9, 11:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 40 min |
| Feb 10, 12:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 22 min |
| Feb 10, 12:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Feb 10, 1:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 69 min |
| Feb 10, 1:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 68 min |
| Feb 10, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 5 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 5 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 5 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Jackson | 5 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 57 min |
| Feb 10, 1:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 67 min |
| Feb 10, 2:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale | 35 min |
| Feb 10, 2:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 29 min |
| Feb 10, 2:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 56 min |
| Feb 10, 2:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 55 min |
| Feb 10, 2:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 58 min |
| Feb 10, 2:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 51 min |
| Feb 10, 2:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 30 min |
| Feb 10, 2:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 55 min |
| Feb 10, 2:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 66 min |
| Feb 10, 3:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 64 min |
| Feb 10, 3:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 64 min |
| Feb 10, 3:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne, Randolph | 37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.