Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1992, 7:39 AM CDT for Marion County, Alabama. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1992, 7:39 AM CDT (12:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1992, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 241238 SVRBHM ALC093-133-241345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 739 AM CDT FRI APR 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...EASTERN MARION COUNTY...WINSTON COUNTY AT 730 AM CDT A SEVERE THUDNERSTORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR HALEYVILLE ALONG THE MARION-WINSTON COUNTY BORDER. HAIL WAS INDICATED WITH THIS STORM. IT IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH AND WILL AFFECT DOUBLE SPRINGS AND NATURAL BRIDGE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR 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, Apr 24, 6:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
ALZ006-007-009>012-017-018-241300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 625 AM CDT FRI APR 24 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 620 AM AREA WEATHER RADARS SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. IT WILL MOVE INTO MARION AND WINSTON COUNTIES BETWEEN 630 AND 700 AM. A FEW STORMS WERE ALSO DETECTED OVER NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI HEADING TOWARD LAMAR AND PICKENS COUUNTIES. RESIDENTS OF NORTHWEST ALABAMA MAY WANT TO ALLOW A LITTLE EXTRA TIME TO DRIVE TO WORK OR SCHOOL THIS MORNING AS SLICK ROADS AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES WILL MAKE DRIVING HAZARDOUS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.