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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1994, 7:10 PM CDT for Clay County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1994, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1994, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -353 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -237 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, Apr 15, 2:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>047-050-054-152105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 201 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 91 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DALLAS COUNTY UNTIL 3 PM CDT... WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA AT 2 PM CDT. THE LINE STRETCHED FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF ANNISTON...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR SELMA. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE STATE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL...WERE LOCATED BETWEEN ALEXANDER CITY AND SYLACAUGA...JUST NORTHWEST OF SELMA...AND BETWEEN MONTGOMERY AND WETUMPKA. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES REMAINS HIGH ACROSS THE AREA. STAY TUNED TO THE LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 2:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-152000 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 215 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH...CENTRAL... AND WEST ALABAMA UNTIL 300 PM CDT...AND FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST AND EAST ALABAMA UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 210 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CLAY... COOSA...AND TALLAPOOSA. ELSEWHERE...A FEW MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS WERE INDICATED OVER BLOUNT...ST. CLAIR... CALHOUN...CLEBURNE...AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES. ALSO...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING INTO NORTHWEST ALABAMA. ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT ARE ANTICIPATED TO MOVE THROUGH THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...VERY STRONG WIND...TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND TORNADOES. PERSONS ACROSS ALL OF ALABAMA ARE INCOURAGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES. BECUASE THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT...NOW, IS THE TIME TO PREPARE...SO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IN CASE SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Apr 15, 3:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 330 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994 TALLAPOOSA COUNTY... ALEXANDER CITY STATE TROOPERS REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN ALEXANDER CITY AT 247 PM CDT. PUBLIC REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDER CITY...REPORT RECEIVED FROM WSFA TELEVISION WEATHERCASTER. COOSA COUNTY... STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY REPORTED MARBLE TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN SOUTHEAST COOSA COUNTY AT 258 PM CDT.
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 5:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
ALZ036>038-040>047-049-050-054-057-058-060-065>069-160030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 529 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT TONIGHT... WEATHER RADAR IN MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AT 530 PM CDT. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHERN END OF LAKE MARTIN...AND JUST NORTH OF OPELIKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER WEST ALABAMA. THE LINE STRETCHED FROM JUST WEST OF BIRMINGHAM...SOUTH TO NEAR DEMOPOLIS. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED BY RADAR OVER EAST CENTRAL OR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AT THIS TIME...ALTHOUGH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR ...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA ARE URGED TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS VERY CLOSELY TONIGHT... AS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES REMAINS EXTREMELY HIGH. PLAN AHEAD NOW...SO YOU WILL KNOW WHpAT TO DO IF A WEATHER WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 6:31 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
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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.