Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 6:28 PM CDT for Etowah County, Alabama. It was in force for 20 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1992, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1992, 6:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Etowah County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 797 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 182327 SVRBHM ALC015-055-190030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 628 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...CALHOUN COUNTY...SOUTHERN ETOWAH COUNTY AT 625 PM...THE GADSDEN STATE EMA REPORTED WIND GUSTS OF 58 MILES AN HOUR. RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ETOWAH COUNTY IN THE GADSDEN MOVING INTO CALHOUN COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. 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, Jun 18, 1:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
ALZ004>006-008-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 145 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH ALABAMA UNTIL 7PM CDT... AT 140 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST ALABAMA. THIS LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INTENSIFY AS IT MOVES TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA COUNTIES OF MARION...WINSTON AND CULLMAN BY 3 PM CDT. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN.... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. ELSEWHERE...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM HAD DE_VELOPED OVER PICKENS COUNTY NEAR ALICEVILLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 67 min |
| Jun 18, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 69 min |
| Jun 18, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 69 min |
| Jun 18, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 29 min |
| Jun 18, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 66 min |
| Jun 18, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 62 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.