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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 27, 1994Perry County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 9:39 AM CDT for Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1994, 9:39 AM CDT (14:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1994, 10:15 AM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Perry County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1994-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2061 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1994-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 307 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
307 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
485 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.2
Supercell composite
20.6

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The text

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCleburne30 min
Jun 26, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarion64 min
Jun 26, 11:18 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXEtowah27 min
Jun 26, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar67 min
Jun 26, 11:38 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCherokee37 min
Jun 27, 12:10 AM CDTTornado WarningBMXCalhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne37 min
Jun 27, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarshall61 min
Jun 27, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDeKalb34 min
Jun 27, 4:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene44 min
Jun 27, 7:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa45 min
Jun 27, 7:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene43 min
Jun 27, 8:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale40 min
Jun 27, 9:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb59 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.