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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 9, 1990Fayette County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 9, 1990, 8:56 PM CST for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 9, 1990, 8:56 PM CST (02:56 UTC)
Expired: Feb 9, 1990, 9:30 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Fayette 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 897 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 340 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 7.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 100256
TORBHM
ALC057-100330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
856 PM CST FRI FEB 9 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH ALABAMA
 
   ...FAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 855 PM CENTERVILLE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN SOUTHERN
LAMAR COUNTY MOVING INTO FAYETTE COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL PASS CLOSE TO
THE TOWN OF FAYETTE.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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, 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, 10:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Madison	68 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.