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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Birmingham, AL

October 10, 1992Cullman County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 10, 1992, 6:18 PM CDT for Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 10, 1992, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 1992, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Cullman County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 2992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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

Local storm report, Oct 10, 2:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 10, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 10, 6:06 PM CDT, 12 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
Oct 10, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	27 min
Oct 10, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	44 min
Oct 10, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	25 min
Oct 10, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman	32 min
Oct 10, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Marion, Walker	35 min
Oct 10, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	32 min
Oct 10, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	26 min
Oct 10, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	55 min
Oct 10, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	34 min
Oct 10, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	52 min
Oct 10, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	51 min
Oct 10, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	18 min
Oct 10, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	31 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.