Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT for Walker County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1992, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walker County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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 291944 SVRBHM ALC127-292045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 245 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...WALKER COUNTY AT 245 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN WALKER COUNTY JUST WEST OF JASPER MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOURS. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS JASPER TO THE SIPSEY AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
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, May 29, 11:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-291800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1150 AM CDT SUN MAY 29 1992 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 1150 AM INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THIS STORMS IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AND IS LIKELY TO MOVE INTO PARTS OF EXTREME NORTHERN PICKENS AND SOUTHERN LAMAR COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR TO AN HOUR. STRONG WIND... LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED AS THIS STORMS PASSES. ELSEWHERE ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND OTHER ISOLATED WEAKER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING.
Special weather statement, May 29, 11:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-291800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO DAY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1150 AM CDT FRI MAY 29 1992 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 1150 AM INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THIS STORMS IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AND IS LIKELY TO MOVE INTO PARTS OF EXTREME NORTHERN PICKENS AND SOUTHERN LAMAR COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR TO AN HOUR. STRONG WIND... LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPE CTED AS THIS STORMS PASSES. ELSEWHERE ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND OTHER ISOLATED WEAKER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING.
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-291900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1255 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTH ALABAMA UNTIL 6 PM... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR
Special weather statement, May 29, 1:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-291900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1255 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTH ALABAMA UNTIL 6 PM... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 1255 PM CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN LAMAR AND PICKENS COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WIND. PERSONS IN FAYETTE AND IN EXTREME NORTHERN TUSCALOOSA CAN EXPECT THESE STORMS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. OTHER STORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS PARTS OF CULLMAN...AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES AS WELL. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA...PERSONS SHOULD KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE AS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 29, 1:49 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-292000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 150 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTH ALABAMA UNTIL 6 PM... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS NORTH ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. THE STRONGEST AT 150 PM WERE IN FAYETTE COUNTY NORTH OF THE CITY OF FAYETTE AND IN LAMAR COUNTY EAST OF MILLPORT. THE CITY OF FAYETTE CAN EXPECT THE TAIL END OF THIS STORM TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. VERY HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WIND CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY TRACK NORTHEASTWARD NEAR 20 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE INTO THE EARLY EVENING SO PERSONS ARE ENCOURAGED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 54 min |
| May 29, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone | 38 min |
| May 29, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 49 min |
| May 29, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| May 29, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 37 min |
| May 29, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 55 min |
| May 29, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 45 min |
| May 29, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 57 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.