Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1993, 1:14 AM CST for Greene County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 1993, 1:14 AM CST (07:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 1993, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 310715 SVRBHM ALC125-063-310800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 114 AM CST WED MAR 31 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...NORTHERN GREENE COUNTY AT 112 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST EAST OF ECHOLA AND ELROD TO NEAR LEWISTON IN GREENE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE OVER THE TUSCALOOSA AREA AROUND 130 AM. A TORNADO WATCH IS APLSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, 7:35 PM CST, 5 hours 39 minutes before
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, 3 hours 2 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.
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 12:05 AM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 12:51 AM CST, 23 minutes before
ALZ010-014-017-310745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1249 AM CST WED MAR 31 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA UNTIL 600 AM CST... AT 1232 AM...WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN LOWNDES COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED IN COVINGTON COUNTY NEAR ANDALUSIA AND OPP AND WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 12:55 AM CST, 19 minutes before
ALZ004>009-011-013-310800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1255 AM CST WED MAR 31 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 600 AM CST... AT 1255 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN PICKENS COUNTY NEAR ALICEVILLE AND REFORM...AND IN MARENGO COUNTY BETWEEN DEMOPOLIS AND LINDEN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE DRIVING ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS MORNING...YOU CAN EXPECT REDUCED VISIBILITIES WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS AND STANDING WATER ON ROADS ACROSS THE MENTIONED AREA. A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE STATE FROM THE WEST. WITH A MOIST...UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE STATE...THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST ALABAMA THIS MORNING. PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOU LOCAL NOAA WEAT"HER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION BROADCASTS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE 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 30, 10:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 29 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.