Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 22, 1992, 5:42 AM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 22, 1992, 5:42 AM CST (11:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 22, 1992, 6:45 AM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilcox County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 221143 RRA SVRMGM ALC131-221245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 542 AM CST SUN NOV 22 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...WILCOX COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING WILCOX COUNTY FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 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 NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIbN 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, Nov 22, 3:43 AM CST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-221045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 343 AM CST SUN NOV 22 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM CST FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM CST FOR GREEN...GEORGE...AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HARRISON AND STONE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI EXPIRED AT 330 AM CST... ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR THE ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 915 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM CST FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND GREEN...GEORGE...AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. AT 330 AM CST RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR BUTLER ALABAMA TO LEAKESVILLE MISSISSIPPI TO OCEAN SPRINGS MISSISSIPPI THEN SOUTH OVER THE COASTAL WATERS TO NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN GREEN AND GEORGE COUNTIES MISSISSIPPI. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THE LINE HAS PASSED THROUGH PERRY...STONE...AND HARRISON COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THESE COUNTIES. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 3:43 AM CST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-221030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY ...CORRECTION FOR DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 340 PM CST SUN NOV 22 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9AM CST THIS SUNDAY MORNING... ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT NORTHWEST FLORIDA THIS MORNING... AT 330 AM CST...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA FROM CRESTVIEW TO PANAMA CITY AND SOUTH OVER THE GULF. SEVERAL INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD AROUND 35 MPH. AN ALMOST SOLID LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN THE WEST EDGE OF MISSISSIPPI FROM MERIDIAN SOUTH ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST COAST OF LOUISIANA TO THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AROUND 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 4:37 AM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-221030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 440 PM CST SUN NOV 22 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9AM CST THIS SUNDAY MORNING... ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT NORTHWEST FLORIDA THIS MORNING... AT 430 AM CST...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE BETWEEN CRESTVIEW AND TALLAHASSEE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF JACKSON COUNTY...SOUTH OF MARIANNA. MOVEMENTS WERE NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO THE WESTERN EDGE OF ALABAMA...NORTH OF MOBILE...AND IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF MISSISSIPPI SOUTH OF MOBILE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LINE WERE IN ALABAMA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 4:38 AM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-221130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 440 PM CST SUN NOV 22 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9AM CST THIS SUNDAY MORNING... ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT NORTHWEST FLORIDA THIS MORNING... AT 430 AM CST...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE BETWEEN CRESTVIEW AND TALLAHASSEE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF JACKSON COUNTY...SOUTH OF MARIANNA. MOVEMENTS WERE NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO THE WESTERN EDGE OF ALABAMA...NORTH OF MOBILE...AND IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF MISSISSIPPI SOUTH OF MOBILE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LINE WERE IN ALABAMA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 4:54 AM CST, 48 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-221200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 454 AM CST SUN NOV 22 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATER... ...TORNADO WARNINGS FOR GREEN COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AND WASHINGTON COUNTY ALABAMA HAVE EXPIRED... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 915 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. AT 445 AM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR THOMASVILLE ALABAMA TO CITRONELLE ALABAMA BAYOU LA BATRE ALABAM THE OVER THEN GULF WATERS TO NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. POWER LINES WERE BLOW DOWN NEAR SEABOARD ALABAMA AROUND 420 AM AS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVED THROUGH WASHINGTON COUNTY. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. R&
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 5:31 AM CST, 11 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-221230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 540 AM CST SUN NOV 22 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9AM CST THIS SUNDAY MORNING... ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT NORTHWEST FLORIDA THIS MORNING... AT 530 AM CST...A SOLID LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED SOUTH OVER THE WESTERN EDGE OF ALABAMA...THROUGH MOBILE AND SOUTHWEST FAR OVER THE GULF. THE THUNDERSTORMS INDICATING THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEASTERLY AROUND 25 MPH. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... EAST OF CRESTVIEW...AND OVER THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. MOVEMENTS WERE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 6:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga | 66 min |
| Nov 22, 7:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coosa | 57 min |
| Nov 22, 8:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Tallapoosa | 67 min |
| Nov 22, 9:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 55 min |
| Nov 22, 9:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore, Macon | 55 min |
| Nov 22, 10:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lee | 65 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.