Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 1994, 10:33 AM CST for Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1994, 10:33 AM CST (16:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1994, 11:15 AM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cullman County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1055 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 399 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 271634 TORBHM ALC043-271715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1033 AM CST SUN MAR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...CULLMAN COUNTY AT 1035 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER SMITH LAKE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 6:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 65 min |
| Mar 27, 9:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Pickens | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 9:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 9:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 10:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Walker | 67 min |
| Mar 27, 10:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 67 min |
| Mar 27, 10:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, St. Clair | 51 min |
| Mar 27, 10:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 53 min |
| Mar 27, 10:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Walker | 60 min |
| Mar 27, 10:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Etowah | 41 min |
| Mar 27, 10:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 52 min |
| Mar 27, 11:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 52 min |
| Mar 27, 11:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 48 min |
| Mar 27, 11:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 11:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 11:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 57 min |
| Mar 27, 11:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 11:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 65 min |
| Mar 27, 11:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 11:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Jackson | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 11:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 49 min |
| Mar 27, 12:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 12:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 48 min |
| Mar 27, 12:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair, Shelby | 45 min |
| Mar 27, 12:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 51 min |
| Mar 27, 12:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker, Winston | 49 min |
| Mar 27, 12:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 64 min |
| Mar 27, 12:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 21 min |
| Mar 27, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee | 45 min |
| Mar 27, 12:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 42 min |
| Mar 27, 1:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah | 65 min |
| Mar 27, 1:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 51 min |
| Mar 27, 1:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 12 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 12 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall | 12 hr |
| Mar 27, 2:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 2:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Marshall | 69 min |
| Mar 27, 2:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 3:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Mar 27, 3:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 39 min |
| Mar 27, 3:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 3:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 66 min |
| Mar 27, 4:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 53 min |
| Mar 27, 4:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 57 min |
| Mar 27, 4:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 4:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Tuscaloosa | 51 min |
| Mar 27, 4:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Etowah | 54 min |
| Mar 27, 5:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 54 min |
| Mar 27, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 57 min |
| Mar 27, 5:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 57 min |
| Mar 27, 5:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 5:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 5:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 60 min |
| Mar 27, 5:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Etowah | 51 min |
Nearby
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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.