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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 5, 1992Talladega County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1992, 2:05 PM CDT for Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 1992, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Talladega County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 11:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

ALZ004>009-051835-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1151 AM CDT SUN JUL 5 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING
                FOR WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

AT 1150 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF STRONG THUNERSTORMS EXTENDING
FROM NORTHWEST ALABAMA INTO FAYETTE AND PICKENS COUNTY...ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.  THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD AFFECT
WINSTON...WALKER AND TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.

RESIDENTS OF WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA NEED TO CONTINUE MONITORING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.  IF THREATING WEATHER APPEARS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BE
PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION.

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 11:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

ALZ004>009-051835-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR HEADING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1155 AM CDT SUN JUL 5 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING
                FOR WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

AT 1150 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF STRONG THUNERSTORMS EXTENDING
FROM NORTHWEST ALABAMA INTO FAYETTE AND PICKENS COUNTY...ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.  THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD AFFECT
WINSTON...WALKER AND TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.

RESIDENTS OF WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA NEED TO CONTINUE MONITORING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.  IF THREATING WEATHER APPEARS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BE
PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION.

Local storm report, Jul 5, 1:49 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 12:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	54 min
Jul 5, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	60 min
Jul 5, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	33 min
Jul 5, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	42 min
Jul 5, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman	42 min
Jul 5, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	63 min
Jul 5, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb	33 min
Jul 5, 1:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	58 min
Jul 5, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	65 min
Jul 5, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	44 min
Jul 5, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	40 min
Jul 5, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	30 min
Jul 5, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson, Marshall	69 min
Jul 5, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	53 min
Jul 5, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	45 min
Jul 5, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	36 min
Jul 5, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	46 min
Jul 5, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	42 min
Jul 5, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	42 min
Jul 5, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee, Cleburne	42 min
Jul 5, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.