Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1992, 5:06 AM CST for Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1992, 5:06 AM CST (11:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1992, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marengo County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 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 301106 SVRBHM ALC091-301200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 506 AM CST MON MAR 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...MARENGO COUNTY AT 504 AM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN MARENGO COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE DEMOPOLIS AND LINDEN AREAS. IT HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOsUR 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
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 1:33 AM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 2:44 AM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
ALZ004>006-008-009-301000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 243 AM CST MON MAR 30 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN ALABAMA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 240 AM CST CONTINUED TO SHOW A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS BAND STRETCHED FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FAYETTE COUNTY INTO EASTERN MISSISSIPPI NEAR STARKVILLE. LAMAR COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED PEA SIZED HAIL ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WHEN THUNDERSTORMS PASSED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY AROUND 230 AM. THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL LIKELY AFFECT FAYETTE AND REFORM...AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES...DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:56 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
ALZ004>009-301130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 355 AM CST MON MAR 30 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN ALABAMA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 352 AM CST CONTINUED TO SHOW A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WESTERN INTO CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS BAND STRETCHED FROM THE NORTHWESTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN WALKER COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDER- STORM CYELL WAS IN EXTREME NORTHERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY NEAR SAMANTHA AND WINDHAM SPRINGS. HAIL WAS ALSO INDICTAED WITH THIS CELL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING DUE EAST AT 45 MPH...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
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.