Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1994, 1:49 PM CST for Chilton County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 1994, 1:49 PM CST (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1994, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chilton County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 091949 SVRBHM ALC021-092030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 149 PM CST WED MAR 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...CHILTON COUNTY AT 146 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING STANTON IN CHILTON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Mar 9, 11:52 AM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
ALZ041-050-046-057-038-065-036-060-058-066-040-043-068-067-069- 047-042-045-044-049-037-054-092000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1151 AM CST WED MAR 9 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA UNTIL 600 PM... AT 1145 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO DALLAS AND WILCOX COUNTIES... AFFECTING THE CITIES OF SELMA AND CAMDEN WITHIN THE HOUR. THEY WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING AT THIS TIME...CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER...AND STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION F|OR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 1:05 PM CST, 44 minutes before
ALZ041-050-046-057-038-065-036-060-058-066-040-043-068-067-069- 047-042-045-044-049-037-054-092100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 103 PM CST WED MAR 9 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA UNTIL 600 PM... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST-CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 1255 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST-CENTRAL ALABAMA MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN MARENGO COUNTY...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHERN WILCOX AND WESTERN DALLAS COUNTIES...AFFECTING THE CITIES OF MILLERS FERRY...MARION JUNCTION...AND SELMA WITHIN 45 MINUTES. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA SHOULD WATCH FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND MOVE INDOORS TO SAFEx SHELTER AS THE STORMS APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 12:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 47 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.