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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 3, 1993Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1993, 8:26 PM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 1993, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 1993, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1622 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 10.3

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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

Local storm report, May 3, 7:38 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 8:01 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 8:01 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
801 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 195 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
UNTIL 1100PM CDT...
...TORNADO WARNING FOR MACON COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

AT 750 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT DANNELLY FIELD MONTGOMERY SHOWED
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA FROM ATLANTA GEORGIA
TO CRESTVIEW FLORIDA.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN
CHAMBERS...LEE..AND COVINGTON COUNTIES.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN DISINTEGRATING IN THE EAST BUT STRENGTHENING IN
COVINGTON COUNTY.  A SECOND LINE THAT WAS SPREADING SEVERE WEATHER IN
BIRMINGHAM AND TUSCALOOSA IS BUILDING SOUTH. PERSONS IN COVINGTON...
DALLAS AND WILCOX COUNTIES NEED TO BE PARTICULARLY ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

THUNDERSTORMS IN THESE AREAS WILL HAVE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.  AS ALWAYS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING IN THESE STORMS CAN BE
DEADLY IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

SNELL

Local storm report, May 3, 8:24 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
825 PM CST MON MAY 3 1993

820 PM CDT...3/4 TO ONE INCH SIZE HAIL AT HUEYTOWN ALABAMA IN JEFFERSON
             COUNTY.

Local storm report, May 3, 8:25 PM CDT, 1 minute before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
825 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993

820 PM CDT...3/4 TO ONE INCH SIZE HAIL AT HUEYTOWN ALABAMA IN JEFFERSON
             COUNTY.

Local storm report, May 3, 8:25 PM CDT, 1 minute before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
825 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993

820 PM CDT...3/4 TO ONE INCH SIZE HAIL AT HUEYTOWN ALABAMA IN JEFFERSON
             COUNTY.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 7:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	62 min
May 3, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cullman	27 min
May 3, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	61 min
May 3, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	55 min
May 3, 9:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Lawrence	4 hr
May 3, 9:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Madison	4 hr
May 3, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	46 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.