Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1992, 11:40 AM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1992, 11:40 AM CDT (16:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1992, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscaloosa County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 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 031638 SVRBHM ALC125-031715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1140 AM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY AT 1130 AM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE CITY OF TUSCALOOSA. REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED OF TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN THE CITY OF TUSCALOOSA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING..2.AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Jul 3, 8:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 815 AM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 DELAYED REPORT FOR STORMS OF JULY 1, 1992 DALE COUNTY...2 40PM CDT...TREES DOWN ON COUNTY ROAD 73 IN SOUTHERN DALE COUNTY....REPORT FROM SKYWARN...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT. HENRY COUNTY...3PM CDT...TREES DOWN IN HEADLAND AREA...REPORT FROM HOUSTON COUNTY EMA...STATEMENT IN EFFECT. PP
Local storm report, Jul 3, 8:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 815 AM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 DELAYED REPORT FOR STORMS OF JULY 1, 1992 DALE COUNTY...2 35PM CDT...HOUSE DAMAGED...TREES ON POWER LINES...SOUTH OF NEWTON...REPORT FROM PEA RIVER ELECTRIC CO-OP...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT. PP
Local storm report, Jul 3, 8:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 815 AM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 DELAYED REPORT FOR STORMS OF JUNE 26, 1992 ELMORE COUNTY...1 50PM CDT...TREES DOWN ON COUNTY ROAD 418 BETWEEN CENTRAL AND ECLECTIC. PEA SIZE HAIL IN CENTRAL. REPORT FROM EMA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT 1 29-2 30PM CDT. PP
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
ALZ004>008-011-031545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 940 AM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS MORNING. THE STRONGEST STORMS AT 940 AM WERE IN PARTS OF SOUTHERN LAMAR...NORTHERN PICKENS...FAYETTE...AND WALKER COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR WHILE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST ALSO AROUND 24 MILES AN HOUR. COUNTIES SUCH AS TUSCALOOSA...JEFFERSON...AND THE REMAINDER OF PICKENS WILL LIKELY HAVE THESE STORMS WITHIN THIS...OR THE NEXT HOUR.z THIS LINE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE FURTHER SOUTH SO PERSONS ACROSS NORTH ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR QUICK ACTION IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED IN YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 10:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
ALZ004>008-011-031630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1035 AM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS MORNING. AT 1035 AM...THE THUNDER- STORMS CONTAINED IN THE LINE WERE IN PARTS OF JEFFERSON...TUSCALOOSA ...PICKENS...SOUTHERN FAYETTE...AND SOUTHERN WALKER COUNTIES. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AND PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING ...AND POSSIBLY GUSY WIND. THE STORMS AND LINE WERE MOVING AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH ALABAMA THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS AND INTO THE AFTERNOON AS WELL. PERSONS SHOULD REMAIZN ALERT AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS CROSS YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 10:45 AM CDT, 55 minutes before
ALZ004>008-011-031630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1035 AM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS MORNING. AT 1035 AM...THE THUNDER- STORMS CONTAINED IN THE LINE WERE IN PARTS OF JEFFERSON...TUSCALOOSA ...PICKENS...SOUTHERN FAYETTE...AND SOUTHERN WALKER COUNTIES. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AND PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING ...AND POSSIBLY GUSTY WIND. THE STORMS AND LINE WERE MOVING AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH ALABAMA THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS AND INTO THE AFTERNOON AS WELL. PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS CROSS YOUR AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 65 min |
| Jul 3, 12:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Perry | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 49 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.