Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1991, 7:36 PM CDT for Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 1991, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1991, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Talladega County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 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.
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, Apr 9, 4:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
447 PM CDT TUE APR 9 1991
305 PM CDT...HALE COUNTY, AL...CITY OF MOUNDVILLE...MARBLE SIZED HAIL
FELL.
410 PM CDT...MARION COUNTY, AL...MARBVLE SIZED HAIL FELL IN GUIN.
425 PM CDT...ETOWAH COUNTY, AL...GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL FELL EAST OF THE CITY
OF GADSDEN.
440 PM CDT...CHILTON COUNTY, AL...DIME SIZED HAIL FELL NORTH OF THE
COMMUNITY OF JEMISON.Special weather statement, Apr 9, 4:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-100000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 455 PM CDT TUE APR 9 1991 AT 445 PM RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. ONE OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WAS JUST WEST OF THE MONTGOMERY AIRPORT MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING OVER THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY BETWEEN 5 AND 530 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A BAND FROM TALLEDEGA TO DEMOPOLIS...ALSO MOVjING EAST. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR DALLAS AND WILCOX COUNTIES UNTIL 8PM. PLEASE REMAIN ALERT AND READY TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLASE IF ONE OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHES. DEVAUGHN
Local storm report, Apr 9, 6:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
610 PM CDT TUE APR 9 1991
515 PM...PICKENS COUNTY, AL. MARBLE SIZED HAIL COVERED THE GROUND NEAR
CARROLTON...REFORM AND COAL FIRE.
535 PM...iWALKER COUNTY, AL. GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL COVERED THE GROUND IN
CURRY (8 MILES SOUTH OF JASPER).
545 PM...TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, AL. MARBLE SIZED HAIL FELL AT BROWNVILLE
(15 MILES NORTHWEST OF TUSCALOOSA).Local storm report, Apr 9, 6:43 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 640 PM CDT TUE APR 09 1991 MONTGOMERY COUNTY...6 35PM CDT...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL CHAMBERS...WOODLEY ROAD IN SNOWDON. REPORT FROM MONTGOMERY DPS. 6 13PM CDT...MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT U.S 80 AND ALABAMA 21 WEST OF DANNELLY FIELD. REPORT FROM SKYWARN. 6PM CDT...MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS ON PIKE ROAD IN SOUTH MONTGOMERY. REPORT FROM SKYWARN. LOWNDES COUNTY...6 27PM CDT...MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT LOWNDESBORO. REPORT FROM SKYWARN. PETTIT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Marshall | 49 min |
| Apr 9, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 54 min |
| Apr 9, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 60 min |
| Apr 9, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 42 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.