Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1992, 2:37 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1992, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1992, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 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 291938 TORHSV ALC079-083-292045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 237 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT IN NORTH ALABAMA ...LAWRENCE COUNTY...LIMESTONE COUNTY AT 238 THIS AFTERNOON PUBLIC REPORTS A POSSOBLE TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF HILLSBORO IN LAWRENCE COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MILES AN HOUR. 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 45 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 44 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 40 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 36 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, 48 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, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 60 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.