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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 22, 1990Hale County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1990, 5:47 PM CDT for Hale County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1990, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1990, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Hale 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1990-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1990-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -153 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 222250 COR
TORBHM
ALC065-222315-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
547 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH ALABAMA

   ...HALE COUNTY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR
GREENSBORO MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

THIS IS TO CORRECT THE EARLIER WARNING FOR GREENE COUNTY WHICH SHOULD
HAVE BEEN FOR HALE COUNTY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 6:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar23 min
Jun 22, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSt. Clair34 min
Jun 22, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb, Tuscaloosa43 min
Jun 22, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson42 min
Jun 22, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSt. Clair48 min
Jun 22, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb, Hale37 min
Jun 22, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson29 min
Jun 22, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby40 min
Jun 22, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXPerry35 min
Jun 22, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarengo48 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.