Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1993, 5:40 PM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1993, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscaloosa County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, 2:26 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 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, 3 hours 13 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, 2 hours 16 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, 2 hours 14 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, 5:14 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-032315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 514 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993 ....TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 1100PM.... AT 505PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY NEAR RAMER AND EXTENDING INTO NORTHERN PIKE COUNTY AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 3, 5:16 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-032315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 514 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993 ....TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 1100PM.... AT 505PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY NEAR RAMER AND EXTENDING INTO NORTHERN PIKE COUNTY AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 66 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, 5:51 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.