Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 1992, 3:46 AM CST for Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 1992, 3:46 AM CST (09:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1992, 4:45 AM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Talladega County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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, Mar 9, 10:07 PM CST, 5 hours 39 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-100510- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1005 PM CST MON MAR 9 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 67 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST ALABAMA UNTIL 100 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING... ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 68 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE TENNESSEE VALLEY REGION OF ALABAMA UNTIL 300 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING... AT 1000 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH EXTENDED FROM NEAR MUSCLE SHOALS ALABAMA SOUTHWESTWARD INTO CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND BACK INTO LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT OF THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN SECTIONS OF ALABAMA AROUND MIDNIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BECOME SEVERE ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. WITH THE AIRMASS BECOMING INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE ACROSS ALABAMA TONIGHT THERE IS THE STRONG POSSIBILIBTY OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. PLEASE...STAY INFORMED OF THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION BY TUNING IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 11:17 PM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-100615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1115 PM CST MON MAR 9 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 67 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST ALABAMA UNTIL 100 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING... AT 1115 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A LINE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHICH EXTENDED FROM NEAR HUNTSVILLE ALABABAMA SOUTHWESTWARD INTO CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND BACK INTO LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT OF THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA COUNTIES OF LAMAR... MARION AND PICKENS WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS IN MISSISSIPPI. PLEASE...STAY INFORMED OF THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION BY TUNING IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 1:49 AM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-100900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 145 AM CST TUE MAR 10 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM CST FOR WILCOX... DALLAS...AUTAUGA...LOWNDES...COOSA...AND CHILTON COUNTIES... AT 140 AM CST...RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER WILCOX...DALLAS AND AUTAUGA COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED OVER WEST CENTRAL THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA FROM MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI TO TUSCALOOSA TO BIRMINGHAM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF WILCOX...DALLAS...AUTAUGA AND COOSA COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA NEED TO REMAIN ALERT TO THE WEATHER SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER EXIST OR A WARNING BE ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEWS MED(IA FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. RAGLAND
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 2:57 AM CST, 49 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 9:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 63 min |
| Mar 9, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 69 min |
| Mar 9, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 60 min |
| Mar 9, 10:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 35 min |
| Mar 9, 11:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 12:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 60 min |
| Mar 10, 12:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 12:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 12:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 12:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 12:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 63 min |
| Mar 10, 12:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa, Walker | 68 min |
| Mar 10, 1:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 58 min |
| Mar 10, 1:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert | 4 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 1:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 1:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale | 62 min |
| Mar 10, 1:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 63 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.