Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1993, 5:09 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1993, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1993, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lauderdale County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 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, May 3, 1:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
ALZ004-008-013-031930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 127 PM CDT MON MAY 03 1993 AT 125 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST PICKENS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH AND WAS LIKELY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS. IT WILL MOVE NEAR ALICEVILLE AND PICKENSVILLE BEFORE 2 PM.
Special weather statement, May 3, 1:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
ALZ004-008-013-031930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 127 PM CDT MON MAY 03 1993 AT 125 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST PICKENS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH AND WAS LIKELY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS. IT WILL MOVE NEAR ALICEVILLE AND PICKENSVILLE BEFORE 2 PM.
Special weather statement, May 3, 2:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
ALZ004-008-013-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 227 PM CDT MON MAY 03 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9 PM FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... RADAR AT 225 PM SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN PICKENS COUNTY. THESE STROMS WERE MOVING NORTH NEAR CARROLLTON AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WERE LIKLEY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...AND GUSTY WIND. IT WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS REFORM BY 300 PM.
Special weather statement, May 3, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
ALZ004-008-013-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 227 PM CDT MON MAY 03 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9 PM FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... RADAR AT 225 PM SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN PICKENS COUNTY. THESE STROMS WERE MOVING NORTH NEAR CARROLLTON AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WERE LIKLEY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...AND GUSTY WIND. IT WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS REFORM BY 300 PM.
Special weather statement, May 3, 3:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
ALZ010-014-032130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 324 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR DALLAS COUNTY EXPIRED AT 315PM... ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR DALLAS AND AUTAUGA COUNITES TIL 9PM.. AT 315PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL DALLAS COUNTY AND SOUTHERN ELMORE COUNTY NEAR PRATTVILLE. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, May 3, 3:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
ALZ010-014-032130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 324 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR DALLAS COUNTY EXPIRED AT 315PM... ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR DALLAS AND AUTAUGA COUNITES TIL 9PM.. AT 315PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL DALLAS COUNTY AND SOUTHERN ELMORE COUNTY NEAR PRATTVILLE. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 59 min |
| May 3, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 61 min |
| May 3, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 56 min |
| May 3, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 38 min |
| May 3, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 51 min |
| May 3, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 57 min |
| May 3, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Morgan | 68 min |
| May 3, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 57 min |
| May 3, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 66 min |
| May 3, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 60 min |
| May 3, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 65 min |
| May 3, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 69 min |
| May 3, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 61 min |
| May 3, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 57 min |
| May 3, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 65 min |
| May 3, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 65 min |
| May 3, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 35 min |
| May 3, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 30 min |
| May 3, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 66 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.