Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 12:14 AM CDT for Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1994, 12:14 AM CDT (05:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1994, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 2789 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.3
- Supercell composite
- 19.8
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, Jun 26, 9:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:08 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>047-049-050-054-057-058-060-065>069-271810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1209 PM CDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 1140 AM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA FROM ASHLAND TO 20 MILES WEST OF MONTGOMERY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PLANTERSVILLE ...ON THE AUTUAGA/CHILTON COUNTY LINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25MPH. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 11:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 67 min |
| Jun 26, 11:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 12:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 44 min |
| Jun 27, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 7:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 43 min |
| Jun 27, 8:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 40 min |
| Jun 27, 9:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 9:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 36 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.