Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 1991, 1:02 PM CST for Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 1991, 1:02 PM CST (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1991, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1376 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 011904 TORBHM ALC105-011945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 102 PM CST FRI MAR 1 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...PERRY COUNTY AT 1 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN SOUTHWEST PERRY COUNTY. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING TOWARD THE CITY OF MARION AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. 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.N USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Mar 1, 11:06 AM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-011800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1106 AM CST FRI MAR 1 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST AND SOUTH ALABAMA UNTIL 3 PM... AT 1104...WEATHER
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 11:08 AM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-011800-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1106 AM CST FRI MAR 1 1991
...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST AND SOUTH ALABAMA UNTIL 3 PM...
AT 1104 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN COVERING THE
WEST HALF OF THE STATE. THE RAIN WAS MAINLY OF LIGHT AND MODERATE INTENSITY
HOWEVER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE HEAVIEST
RAIN WAS IN TUCALOOSA...SUMTER...AND MARENGO COUNTIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MILES AND HOUR. HALE...GREENE...AND WALKER COUNTIES WILL
RECEIVE HEAVY RAIN WITHIN THE HOUR.
A STORM SYSTEM CONTINUES TO GAIN STRENGTH AND MOVE CLOSER TO ALABAMA. SHOWERS
AND THUNDERST{ORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE-
COME SEVERE.Special weather statement, Mar 1, 12:06 PM CST, 56 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-011900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1205 PM CST FRI MAR 1 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 17 IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM CST FOR WEST ALABAMA... ...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO MONTGOMERY... AT 1152 AM CST WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN FROM WASHINGTON AND CLARKE COUNTIES TO JUST BEYOND BIRMINGHAM. WITHIN THAT AREA OF RAIN WERE SOME THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN DALLAS AND LOWNDES COUNTIES AND WERE MOVING JUST EAST OF NORTH AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE AREA IS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND RAIN HAS BEGUN IN MONTGOMERY. THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MANY COUNTIES WEST OF MONTGOMERY SO RESIDENTS WILL WANT TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. SNELL
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 12:21 PM CST, 41 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-011900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1205 PM CST FRI MAR 1 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 17 IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST FOR WEST ALABAMA... ...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO MONTGOMERY... AT 1152 AM CST WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN FROM WASHINGTON AND CLARKE COUNTIES TO JUST BEYOND BIRMINGHAM. WITHIN THAT AREA OF RAIN WERE SOME THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN DALLAS AND LOWNDES COUNTIES AND WERE MOVING JUST EAST OF NORTH AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE AREA IS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND RAIN HAS BEGUN IN MONTGOMERY. THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MANY COUNTIES WEST OF MONTGOMERY SO RESIDENTS WILL WANT TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. SNELL
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 12:39 PM CST, 23 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-011900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 140 PM CST FRI MAR 1 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST AND SOUTH ALABAMA UNTIL 3 PM... AT 138 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN CONTAINING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING MAINLY VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS IN THE SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN IN MARENGO COUNTY AS WELL AS STRONG GUSTY WINDS. HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO FALLING IN GREENE...HALE ...SUMTER...PICKENS COUNTIES. A STORM SYSTEM CONTINUES TOWARD ALABAMA...AND RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. SOME THUN DERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 12:42 PM CST, 20 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-011900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...TIME CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1240 PM CST FRI MAR 1 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST AND SOUTH ALABAMA UNTIL 3 PM... AT 1238 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN CONTAINING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING MAINLY VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS IN THE SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN IN MARENGO COUNTY AS WELL AS STRONG GUSTY WINDS. HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO FALLING IN GREENE...HALE ...SUMTER...PICKENS COUNTIES. A STORM SYSTEM CONTINUES TOWARD ALABAMA...AND RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO% TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.
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.