Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1992, 12:53 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1992, 12:53 PM CDT (17:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1992, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 111752 SVRBHM ALC019-111-111845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1253 PM CDT THU JUN 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...CHEROKEE COUNTY...RANDOLPH COUNTY AT 12:52 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE ETOWAH/CHEROKEE COUNTY LINE AND NEAR WEDOWEE IN RANDOLPH COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MILES PER HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RA IN. 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, Jun 11, 11:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
ALZ004>009-11-111700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1100 AM CDT THU JUN 11 1992 AT 1100 AM...WEATHER RADAR AT CENTREVILLE SHOWED AN ISOLATED BUT STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH AND DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN CULLMAN AND BLOUNT COUNTIES...ALSO MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 11:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
ALZ004>009-11-111700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR ISSUE TIME. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1110 AM CDT THU JUN 11 1992 AT 1100 AM...WEATHER RADAR AT CENTREVILLE SHOWED AN ISOLATED BUT STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH AND DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN CULLMAN AND BLOUNT COUNTIES...ALSO MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 11:56 AM CDT, 57 minutes before
ALZ004>009-11-111800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1155 AM CDT THU JUN 11 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN ALABAMA UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 1155 AM...STRONG THUNDERTORMS WERE INCREASING IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN SOUTHWEST CLEBURNE AND RANDOLPH COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EASTERN BLOUNT...WESTERN ETOWAH AND CALHOUN COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORM WERE ALSO MOVING EAST NEAR 30 MPH. ALL THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. = PERSONS ALONG THE PATH OF THIS STORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 12:44 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-111845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1243 PM CDT THU JUN 11 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF ALABAMA EAST OF MONTGOMERY UNTIL 7PM CDT... AT 1232 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED AN AREA OF LIGHT RAIN OVER AND UP TO 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONTGOMERY...EXTENDING TO TUSKEEGEE. A FEW PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER EAST COVINGTON AND NORTHWEST COFFEE COUNTIES. ALTHOUGH THERE WERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME NORTHEAST LEE COUNTY...THESE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE OUT OF THE STATE BEFORE 1245 PM. THE RAIN AREAS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST. THERE IS NO SEVERE NWEATHER IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER DECREASING CLOUDINESS AND SOME SUN SHOULD INCREASE THE INSTABILITY MAKING THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE AREA. SNELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 12:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 52 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.