Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1992, 12:50 PM CDT for Autauga County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1992, 12:50 PM CDT (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1992, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Autauga County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 959 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 271749 SVRMGM ALC001-271845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1250 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...AUTAUGA COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT DANNELLY FIELD IN MONTGOMERY SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL AUTAUGA COUNTY MOVING SLOWLY EAST. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR HNO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, Aug 27, 9:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-271530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 935 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3PM CDT FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA ...OKALOOSA...WALTON...BAY...WASHINGTON AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 930 AM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 9:39 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-271645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 937 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 3 PM FOR WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE... CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES OF ALABAMA... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE SAME COUNTIES TODAY... MOBILE RADAR SHOWS A BAND OF RAIN SWEEPING ACROSS WASHINGTON COUNTY AND NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED WEST INTO MISSISSIPPI AND NORTHWARD INTO CENTRAL ALABAMA. THIS LARGE AREA OF RAIN...THE OUTER REMMANTS OF WHAT WAS ONCE ANDREW WAS DRIFTING NORTHEAST. WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH SOME HIGHER GUSTS WERE COMMON ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. STRONGER WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIER RAIN SQUALLS AND POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE ALSO MOVING ACROSS BALDWIN COUNTY FROM NEAR FAIRHOPE TO BAY MINETTE. MOVEMENT WAS RAPIDLY NORTH NORTHEAST. IN MOBILE COUNTY...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS AND A RISING TIDE WAS PUSHING WATER AND SOME DEBRIS ACROSS THE EAST BOUND LANE OF THE CAUSEWAY. THE ROAD WAS STILL OPEN AT 930 AM BUT THE HIGHWAY DEPT. WAS ASSESSING THE SITUATION. WATER WAS STANDING ON SOME OF THE APPROACHES TO THE INTERSTATE. HIGH TIDE IS AROUND 1 PM SO CONDITIONS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE THIS MORNING. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES IN OR NEAR TO THE WATCH AREA. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFTEY IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SGIGHTED OR FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR WARNINGS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 10:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-271630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1035 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3PM CDT FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA ...OKALOOSA...WALTON...BAY...WASHINGTON AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 1030 AM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 11:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-271830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1125 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 3 PM FOR WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE... CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES OF ALABAMA... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR WASHINGTON AND CLARKE COUNTIES... MOBILE RADAR SHOWS A BAND OF RAIN...POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS FROM JUST NORTH OF MOBILE TO GROVE HILL. THIS AREA WAS SPREADING ACROSS MONROE COUNTY INTO CONECUH COUNTY. RAIN HAS STOPPED AT CHATOM...CHATOM REPORTED A TREE DOWN ON A POWER LINE EARLY THIS MORNING BUT NO OTHER PROBLEMS. A REPORT FROM NEAR CITRONELLE OF A PINE TREE BROKEN OFF AROUND 1030 THIS MORNING BUT NO OTHER PROBLEMS. WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH HAVE BEEN OCCURRING ACROSS THE AREA NORTH OF MOBILE. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT MOBILE HAS MEASURED A GUST OF 35 MPH AROUND 10 THIS MORNING. THE COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS AND THE ASTRONOMICAL HIGH TIDE AT 107 PM HAS FORCED WATER ACROSS THE EAST BOUND LANES OF THE CAUSEWAY. THE EAST BOUND LANES ARE CLOSED BUT THE WEST BOUND LANES HAVE BEEN CONVERTED TO TWO WAY TRAFFIC. THIS CONDITION WILL LIKELY PERSIST UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE THIS MORNING... HOWEVER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENT AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 11:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-271730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1135 AM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3PM CDT FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA ...OKALOOSA...WALTON...BAY...WASHINGTON AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 1130 AM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 12:33 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-271830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1235 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3PM CDT FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA ...OKALOOSA...WALTON...BAY...WASHINGTON AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 1230 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 58 min |
| Aug 27, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lowndes | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 12:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Lowndes, Montgomery | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Elmore, Montgomery | 58 min |
| Aug 27, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 62 min |
| Aug 27, 2:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Macon | 66 min |
| Aug 27, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Tallapoosa | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lee | 68 min |
| Aug 27, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Macon | 45 min |
| Aug 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers, Lee | 55 min |
| Aug 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.