Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 2:44 PM CDT for Colbert County, Lawrence County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colbert County, AL, Lawrence County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Colbert, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 2796 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 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
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 1:45 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
ALZ004>008-101930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 145 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 140 PM A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOACTED FROM TUSCALOOSA TO JASPER. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED LITTLE DURING THE PAST HOUR AND BECAUSE OF THEIR SLOW MOVEMENT SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY OCCUR. ALSO...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITHIN THIS BAND OF STORMS. ELSEWHERE...OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...BE PREAPRED TO TO SEEK SAFE SHELTERD UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:34 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
ALZ004>009-102030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 233 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 230 PM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOACTED OVER WALKER AND WESTERN CULLMAN COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED PEA SIZED HAIL WHICH COVERED THE GROUND OVER THE COMMUNITY OF BOLDO NEAR JASPER IN WALKER COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER MARION...LAMAR...TUSCALOOSA...GREENE AND SAINT CLAIR COUNTIES. THE THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED LITTLE DURING THE PAST HOUR AND BECAUSE OF THEIR SLOW MOVEMENT SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY OCCUR. ALSO...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND STRONG... GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...BE PREAPRED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 30 min |
| Aug 10, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Aug 10, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 53 min |
| Aug 10, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 50 min |
| Aug 10, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 49 min |
| Aug 10, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 44 min |
| Aug 10, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1992Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.