Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1993, 6:19 PM CDT for Chilton County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1993, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1993, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chilton County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 1549 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBHM 032321 SVRBMX ALC021-040000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 619 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...CHILTON COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST CHILTON COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WAS APPROAHCING JEMISON. RADAR INDICATED THE STORM MAY BE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND STRONG...GUSTY WINDS. 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, Aug 3, 4:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-013-032300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 457 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 1993 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BLOUNT COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... AT 455 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM OVER BLOUNT COUNTY HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY. HOWEVER...OTHER THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED STRONG OVER SOUTHERN CULLMAN AND CENTRAL BLOUNT COUNTIES. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY SOUTH OF THE CITY OF TUSCALOOSA...NORTH OF SAWYERVILLE IN HALE COUNTY AND SOUTHEAST OF DUCANVILLE NEAR THE TUSCALOOSA/BIBB COUNTY LINE. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST AROUND 10 MPH. SCATTERED LOCALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS...SO PEOPLE SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OR THE NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES CONCERNING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 4:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-013-032300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 457 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 1993 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BLOUNT COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... AT 455 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM OVER BLOUNT COUNTY HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY. HOWEVER...OTHER THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED STRONG OVER SOUTHERN CULLMAN AND CENTRAL BLOUNT COUNTIES. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY SOUTH OF THE CITY OF TUSCALOOSA...NORTH OF SAWYERVILLE IN HALE COUNTY AND SOUTHEAST OF DUCANVILLE NEAR THE TUSCALOOSA/BIBB COUNTY LINE. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST AROUND 10 MPH. SCATTERED LOCALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS...SO PEOPLE SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OR THE NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES CONCERNING THUFNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-032315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 516 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 510 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTH-CENTRAL ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY...TO NEAR FORT DEPOSIT...RAMER...AND INTO BULLOCK COUNTY NEAR UNION SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE MONTGOMERY...TUSKEGEE...AND AUBURN AREAS.
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-032315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 516 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 510 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTH-CENTRAL ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM EASTERN WILCOX COUNTY...TO NEAR FORT DEPOSIT...RAMER...AND INTO BULLOCK COUNTY NEAR UNION SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE MONTGOMERY...TUSKEGEE...AND AUBURN AREAS.
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:53 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-013-032300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
553 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 1993
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA...
AT 550 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS
WERE OVER SOUTHERN BIBB COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF CENTREVILLE AND OVER ST.
CLAIR COUNTY BETWEEN BROMPTON AND PELL CITY. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS
JUST ENTERING THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF MARENGO COUNTY.
THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST/NORTH
EAST AT 20 MPH.
SCATTERED LOCALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE INTO THE
EVENING HOURS...SO PEOPLE SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR
THE NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES CONCERNING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
THIS EVENING.Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:54 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-013-032300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
553 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 1993
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA...
AT 550 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS
WERE OVER SOUTHERN BIBB COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF CENTREVILLE AND OVER ST.
CLAIR COUNTY BETWEEN BROMPTON AND PELL CITY. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS
JUST ENTERING THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF MARENGO COUNTY.
THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST/NORTH
EAST AT 20 MPH.
SCATTERED LOCALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE INTO THE
EVENING HOURS...SO PEOPLE SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR
THE NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES CONCERNING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
THIS EVENING.The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 43 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.