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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1994, 6:13 PM CDT for Randolph County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1994, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1994, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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, Jun 25, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
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ALZ039-252330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 528 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CANCELLED FOR MARENGO COUNTY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS CONTINUE FOR TALLADEGA AND WINSTON COUNTIES... AT 525 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWS THE STORM OVER NORTHERN MARENGO COUNTY HAS WEAKENED AND THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ELSEWHERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR TALLADEGA AND DOUBLE SPRINGS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS AND HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE COVER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 5:32 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
ALZ039-252330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 528 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CANCELLED FOR MARENGO COUNTY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS CONTINUE FOR TALLADEGA AND WINSTON COUNTIES... AT 525 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWS THE STORM OVER NORTHERN MARENGO COUNTY HAS WEAKENED AND THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ELSEWHERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR TALLADEGA AND DOUBLE SPRINGS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS AND HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE COVER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 54 min |
| Jun 25, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 56 min |
| Jun 25, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone | 57 min |
| Jun 25, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Morgan | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 68 min |
| Jun 25, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 69 min |
| Jun 25, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 57 min |
| Jun 25, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 37 min |
| Jun 25, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 68 min |
| Jun 25, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 41 min |
| Jun 25, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 41 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.