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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Mobile, AL

November 22, 1992Lee County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 22, 1992, 10:10 AM CST for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 22, 1992, 10:10 AM CST (16:10 UTC)
Expired
Nov 22, 1992, 11:15 AM CST
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 243 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-11-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 484 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-11-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 165 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
484 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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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, 7:29 AM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-221315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
730 AM CST SUN NOV 22 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST
ALABAMA EXCEPT MOBILE...WASHINGTON AND CLARKE...

...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI COASTAL
WATERS...

AT 725 AM CST THE MOBILE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN MONROE AND WESTERN ESCAMBIA
COUNTIES OF ALABAMA.  THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING
THE COMMUNITIES OF CASTLEBERRY AND EVERGREEN IN CONECUH COUNTY AND
FLOMATON AND BREWTON IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY.  THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO
THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN ESCAMBIA AND CONECUH COUNTIES CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINS
...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING OVER THE NEXT HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 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.
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 7:35 AM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-221430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
740 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 730 AM CST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR MONTGOMERY
ALABAMA SOUTHWESTWARD TO ESCAMBIA COUNTY OF FLORIDA AND INTO THE GULF
125 MILES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE IN SOUTH
ALABAMA. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEASTERLY AROUND 20 MPH.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS FOLLOWED AND PRECEEDED THE LINE FROM COASTAL
MISSISSIPPI ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA TO HOLMES AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD AROUND 30
MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 8:31 AM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-221525-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
835 AM CST SUN NOV 22 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA WILL EXPIRE AT 900 AM CST...

AT 825 AM CST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM MONTGOMERY
SOUTHWEST TO NEAR PENSACOLA THEN CONTINUED OUT 100 MILES INTO THE GULF.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAIN WERE NEAR MONTGOMERY AND IN THE
GULF 25 TO 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PENSACOLA.  THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER
THIS MORNING AS THE POTENTIAL STILL EXISTS FOR SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES.

OTHER SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AHEAD OF THE LINE
OF THUNDERSTORMS AND IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
BEHIND THE LINE.
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 9:04 AM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-221315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
910 AM CST SUN NOV 22 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA COUNTIES
EXPIRED AT 9 AM...

...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI COASTAL
WATERS...

AT 9 AM THE MOBILE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL ALABAMA...ACROSS THE EASTERN
SECTIONS OF CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTY...ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE
TO JUST OFFSHORE OF ORANGE BEACH ALABAMA AND INTO THE GULF FOR 75
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 9:10 AM CST, 1 hour before
FLZ001>004-221526-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
910 AM CST SUN NOV 22 1992

...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA HAS EXPIRED...
...THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT NORTHWEST IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT...

THE TORNADO WATCH WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 900 AM CST.  CONDITIONS
FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES HAVE LESSENED SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING...
THEREFORE MAKING A TORNADO WATCH UNECESSARY FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA AT
THIS TIME.  HOWEVER...SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL CONTAIN SOME GUSTY
WINDS AS THEY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE REST OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE TODAY.

THE DENSE FOG CONDITIONS OF EARLY THIS MORNING HAVE IMPROVED SO THE
DENSE FOG ADVISORY WILL BE DISCONTINUED AT THIS TIME.
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 9:11 AM CST, 59 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-221315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
910 AM CST SUN NOV 22 1992

...THE TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA COUNTIES
EXPIRED AT 9 AM CST...

...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI COASTAL
WATERS...

AT 9 AM THE MOBILE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL ALABAMA...ACROSS THE EASTERN
SECTIONS OF CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTY...ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE
TO JUST OFFSHORE OF ORANGE BEACH ALABAMA AND INTO THE GULF FOR 75
NAUTICAL MILES.  THE LINE CONTINUED MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN
HOUR.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS NOTED BY WEATHER RADAR WERE OCCURRING
OFFSHORE OF THE ALABAMA COAST APPROXIMATELY 15 MILES TO THE
SOUTHEAST OF ORANGE BEACH ALABAMA.  THESE ARE EXPECTED TO
CONTINUE MOVING TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST SOUTH OF BALDWIN
COUNTY.

ELSEWHERE...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE WAS DETECTING
SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS ACROSS SECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 22, 5:42 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox63 min
Nov 22, 6:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBAutauga66 min
Nov 22, 7:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCoosa57 min
Nov 22, 8:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBTallapoosa67 min
Nov 22, 9:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMontgomery55 min
Nov 22, 9:20 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBElmore, Macon55 min
Nov 22, 2:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBHarrison, Stone45 min
Nov 22, 3:45 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBGreene30 min

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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.