Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 1:57 PM CST for Marion County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1994, 1:57 PM CST (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1994, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 241957 SVRBHM ALC093-242030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 157 PM CST THU MAR 24 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 NORTH ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN MARION COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EASTWARD AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF MARION COUNTY. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM AT 147 PM BY ALABAMA STATE TROOPERS. ON THE PRESENT TRACK THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF BRILLIANT, TEXAS, AND GU-WIN DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EXTENDS THE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR MARION COUNTY. 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 24, 12:23 PM CST, 1 hour 34 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, 12:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 48 min |
| 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, 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.