Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1992, 4:05 PM CDT for Chambers County, Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1992, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1992, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chambers County, AL, Lee County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 4:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Lee, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 272104 SVRMGM ALC005-017-081-272200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 405 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...BARBOUR COUNTY...CHAMBERS COUNTY...LEE COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING TO BE DETECTED IN THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT STRETCHES FROM BARBOUR TO LEE AND CHAMBERS COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE RECENTLY PRODUCED DAMAGE. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. 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, Aug 27, 12:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 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.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 12:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-272000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1255 PM 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... AT 1250 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CONECUH COUNTY...GENERALLY FROM EVERGREEN NORTH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE MOBILE WEATHER SERVICE ...HOWEVERE SEVERE WEATHER AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM AREAS TO THE NORTH. STRONG GUSTY SOUTH AND SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THIS EVENING. A TREE WAS BLOWN OVER AT WOLF BAY LODGE ON HIGHWAY 20 IN SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY AROUND 1130 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. 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, 1:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-271830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 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 130 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. ...TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...ONE JUST SOUTH OF MONTGOMERY...THE OTHER WAS APPROACHING SOUTHERN BAY COUNTY FLORIDA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LIGHTNING STRIKES AND POSSIBLE HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 1:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-271935- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 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 130 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. ...TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...ONE JUST SOUTH OF MONTGOMERY...THE OTHER WAS APPROACHING SOUTHERN BAY COUNTY FLORIDA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LIGHTNING STRIKES AND POSSIBLE HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-272035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 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 230 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN FLORIDA PAN- HANDLE AND COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN PORT ST JOE AND APALACHICOLA...EXT- ENDING SOUTHWEST OVER THE OPEN GULF. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 3:14 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-272000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 310 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 775 WHICH INCLUDED CLARKE...WASHINGTON ...MONROE...CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED AT 3 PM CDT... ...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR CLARKE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WHICH MOVED THROUGH SOUTHERN ALABAMA EARLIER TODAY HAS MOVED NORTHEASTWARD AWAY FROM SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. FOR THIS REASON...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRED AT 3 PM FOR THE SOUTHWEST ALABAMA COUNTIES. AT 3 PM THE MOBILE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DID SHOW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THESE WERE GENERALLY MOVING EASTWARD AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. NO PRECIPITATION WAS BEING DETECTED IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.
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, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga | 55 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 | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.