Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 1992, 10:55 PM CST for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 1992, 10:55 PM CST (04:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1992, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Limestone County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 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 100455 TORHSV ALC083-100600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1055 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST IN NORTH ALABAMA ...LIMESTONE COUNTY HUNTSVILLE RADAR AT 1053 INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF ATHENS. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LAWRENCE COUNTY UNTIL 1130 PM CST. THE SEVERE THUNDLKERSTORM WARNING FOR LAUDERDALE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 9:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 63 min |
| Mar 9, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 69 min |
| Mar 9, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 60 min |
| Mar 9, 11:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 12:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 60 min |
| Mar 10, 12:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 12:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 12:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 12:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 12:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 63 min |
| Mar 10, 12:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa, Walker | 68 min |
| Mar 10, 1:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 58 min |
| Mar 10, 1:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert | 4 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 1:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 1:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale | 62 min |
| Mar 10, 1:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 63 min |
| Mar 10, 3:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 59 min |
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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.