Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 10:46 PM CST for Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1993, 10:46 PM CST (04:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1993, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 5:34 PM CST, 5 hours 12 minutes before
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ALZ004>009-011-013-310300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 734 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WEST AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 1200 MIDNIGHT TONIGHT... AT 730 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS CONTINUED TO SHOW A BAND OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF ALABAMA...ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTHERN TWO THIRDS OF THE STATE. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN ALABAMA WERE IN A BAND FROM THE STATE LINE NEAR MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI...INTO SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS CONTINUED TO PUSH THROUGH MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI... AND THOSE WILL START MOVING INTO WESTERN ALABAMA IN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. ALL STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... LARGE HAIL...AND POSSIBLY TORNADOS. THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...AND EVERYONE ACROSS THE STATE SHOULD KEEP UP TO DATE ON THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TELEVSION OR RADIO STATIONS THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 10:12 PM CST, 34 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-310615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1012 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 .....SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHCENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 1000 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS BULLOCK...PIKE...AND SOUTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTIES AND WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. MANY OF THESE AREAS HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL...AND ADDITIONAL RAINS MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND PLACES WITH POOR DRAINAGE. NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS ARE CURRENTLY IN EFFECT ACROSS THE REGION...BUT STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE WATCHES OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 1:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.