Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1992, 5:17 PM CDT for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1992, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1992, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Limestone County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 KHSV 102219 SVRHSV ALC077-083-102315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 517 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT IN NORTH ALABAMA ...EASTERN LAUDERDALE COUNTY...LIMESTONE COUNTY HUNTSVILLE RADAR AT 515 PM CDT INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN LAUDERDALE COUNTY NEAR WHITEHEAD. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Jun 10, 2:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-102100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 235 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 MONTGOMERY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH ALABAMA FROM MILLERS FERRY TO GEORGIANA TO DOTHAN IN A 40 MILE WIDE BAND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR BRANTLEY IN CRENSHAW COUNTY AND OVER DALE COUNTY JUST NORTH OF FT RUCKER. PERSONS IN THE PATHS OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS INCLUDING...DEADLY LIGHTNING...STREET FLOODING... VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
ALZ004-008-013-102100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 250 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. THE STRONGEST AT 250 PM... WERE IN SUMTER AND CHOCTAW COUNTIES MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND LIGHTNING. AT THE PRESENT SPEED AND DIRECTION...THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO PARTS OF SOUTHERN GREENE...HALE...AND MARENGO COUNTIES BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM. THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN A POSSIBILITY ACROSS ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA INTO THE EVENING HOURS SO PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-102230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 405 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 MONTGOMERY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUEING OVER SOUTH ALABAMA FROM MILLERS FERRY TO DOTHAN IN A 50 MILE WIDE BAND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR MILLERS FERRY IN WILCOXS COUNTY...HIGHLAND HOME IN CRENSHAW COUNTY...AND NEAR OPP IN COVINGTON COUNTY. PERSONS IN THE PATHS OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS INCLUDING...DEADLY LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:57 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
ALZ004>009-102300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 456 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 AT 455 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN FAYETTE AND SOUTHERN MARION COUNTIES NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF CARBON HILL AND WINFIELD. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND SHOULD MOVE INTO WESTERN LAMAR...MARION...AND PICKENS COUNTY BY 530 PM CDT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN...BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. STAYED TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. A
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 28 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.