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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Mobile, AL

August 27, 1992Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1992, 4:05 PM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

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

County Barbour County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1584 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1584 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 10:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMontgomery58 min
Aug 27, 12:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBLowndes64 min
Aug 27, 12:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBLowndes, Montgomery61 min
Aug 27, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBAutauga55 min
Aug 27, 1:47 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBElmore, Montgomery58 min
Aug 27, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCrenshaw62 min
Aug 27, 2:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBMacon66 min
Aug 27, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBullock64 min
Aug 27, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBTallapoosa64 min
Aug 27, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBLee68 min
Aug 27, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChambers65 min
Aug 27, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMacon45 min
Aug 27, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChambers, Lee55 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.