Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1992, 1:48 PM CST for Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1992, 1:48 PM CST (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1992, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Russell County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCSG 301953 SVRCSG ALC113-302030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 248 PM EST MON MAR 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SOUTHWESTERN RUSSELL COUNTY AT 148 CST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF RUSSELL COUNTY IN ALABAMA NEAR THE TOWN OF HURTSBORO. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING TO NEAR SEALE IN CENTRAL RUSSELL COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSBIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Mar 30, 8:46 AM CST, 5 hours 2 minutes before
FLZ004-301530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FLORIDA 940 AM EST MON MAR 30 1992 AT 940 AM...THERE WAS A LARGE AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 70 MILES SOUTHWEST OF APALACHICOLA FLORIDA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES AS WELL AS MARINE INTEREST SHOULD PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER. LOOK TO THE SOUTHWEST TO WATCH FOR THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD HAVE STRONG WINDS...HAIL...LIGHTENING ...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE APPROACHING LAND BETWEEN 1200 AND 1230 PM EST. ?
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 10:42 AM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes before
FLZ004-301730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FLORIDA 1140 AM EST MON MAR 30 1992 AT 1140 AM...THERE WAS A LARGE AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES WEST OF APALACHICOLA FLORIDA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES AS WELL AS MARINE INTEREST SHOULD PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER. LOOK TO THE SOUTHWEST TO WATCH FOR THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD HAVE STRONG WINDS...HAIL...LIGHTENING ...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE APPROACHING LAND BETWEEN 1200 AND 1230 PM EST.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 11:42 AM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
FLZ004-301830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FLORIDA 1240 PM EST MON MAR 30 1992 AT 1235 PM...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED TO THE EAST OF GULF COUNTY AND WILL BE EAST OF FRANKLIN COUNTY BY 1 PM EST. MARINE INTEREST ALONG FRANKLIN COUNTY SHOULD PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER UNTIL 130 PM. LOOK TO THE SOUTHWEST TO WATCH FOR THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THE THUNwDERSTORMS COULD HAVE STRONG WINDS...HAIL...LIGHTNING ...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 1:03 PM CST, 45 minutes before
FLZ003-005-006-007-GAZ011-012-302000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 205 PM EST (105 PM CST) MON MAR 30 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTH GEORGIA UNTIL 7 PM EST (6 PM CST) THIS EVENING. ..AT 202 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE BIG BEND AREA OF FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM WESTERN SEMINOLE COUNTY GEORGIA ACROSS DECATUR AND THOMAS COUNTIES AND INTO LEON AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES IN FLORIDA. THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE NORTHEAST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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.