Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1994, 4:30 PM CDT for Greene County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1994, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1994, 5:22 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 881 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 13, 4:29 PM CDT, 1 minute before
ALZ036>038-041>047-049-050-065>069-132230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 429 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 10 PM CDT... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AT 425 PM CDT. A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED JUST EAST OF FORT DEPOSIT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ARE URGED TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY THIS EVENING. THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS... AND LARGE HAIL REMAINS HIGH IN...AND CLOSE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR THE LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 13, 4:29 PM CDT, 1 minute before
ALZ036>038-041>047-049-050-065>069-132230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 429 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 10 PM CDT... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AT 425 PM CDT. A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED JUST EAST OF FORT DEPOSIT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ARE URGED TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY THIS EVENING. THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS... AND LARGE HAIL REMAINS HIGH IN...AND CLOSE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR THE LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 65 min |
| May 13, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 50 min |
| May 13, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 61 min |
| May 13, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.