Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 12:27 PM CST for Greene County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1994, 12:27 PM CST (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1994, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 48 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, 6.5 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
- 615 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 241827 RRA SVRBHM ALC063-241915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1227 PM CST THU MAR 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...NORTHERN GREENE COUNTY AT 1224 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN GREENE COUNTY JUST NORTHWEST OF UNION. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADL8Y LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 24, 12:23 PM CST, 4 minutes before
ALZ018>069-FLZ001>015-241730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1000 AM CST THU MAR 23 1994 THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COAST EARLIER THIS MORNING HAS EXPIRED. INCREASING SOUTH WINDS HAVE LIFTED THE FOG THAT FORMED LAST NIGHT. VISIBLITIES HAVE IMPROVED AND WILL CONTINUE TO IMPROVE DURING THE AFTERNOON. PARTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY SKIES AND TEMPERATURES RISING INTO THE UPPER 70*S AND LOWER 80S ARE IN STORE FOR THE REST OF TODAY. THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 12:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 41 min |
| Mar 24, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 49 min |
| Mar 24, 1:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 33 min |
| Mar 24, 1:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 43 min |
| Mar 24, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 33 min |
| Mar 24, 2:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 55 min |
| Mar 24, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 40 min |
| Mar 24, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 55 min |
| Mar 24, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 61 min |
| Mar 24, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 60 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.