Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1992, 7:13 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1992, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1992, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 1926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 280014 SVRMOB ALC003-280115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 713 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...BALDWIN COUNTY AT 710 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BAY MINETTE. IT WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM ATMORE ALABAMA TO LUCEDALE MISSISSIPPI. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEA8DLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, 1:39 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 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, 5 hours 32 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, 4 hours 38 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, 3 hours 59 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.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 7:02 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 700 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WILL BE MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INTO SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAUSING SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED OR APPEAR IMMINENT.
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.