Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 1992, 8:09 AM CST for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 24, 1992, 8:09 AM CST (14:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 1992, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 458 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 241415 SVRMGM ALC069-241515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 809 AM CST TUE NOV 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA ...HOUSTON COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INDICATED FIVE MILES SOUTH OF DOTHAN AIRPORT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO HOUSTON COUNTY FROM FLORIDA. 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. REMAIN 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 24, 5:38 AM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-222225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 540 AM CST TUE NOV 24 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615AM CST FOR ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 530AM CST...RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN A NORTH TO SOUTH LINE THROUGH ESCAMBIA COUNTY OF FLORIDA. THE LINE IS MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AND WILL BE ENTERING fSANTA ROSA COUNTY SHORTLY. IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY RAIN AND ALMOST CONSTANT LIGHTNING...STRONG POSSIBLE DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE RAPIDLY EAST AND NORTHEAST.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 5:41 AM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-241230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 540 AM CST TUE NOV 24 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615AM CST FOR ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 530AM CST...RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN A NORTH TO SOUTH LINE THROUGH ESCAMBIA COUNTY OF FLORIDA. THE LINE IS MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AND WILL BE ENTERtING SANTA ROSA COUNTY SHORTLY. IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY RAIN AND ALMOST CONSTANT LIGHTNING...STRONG POSSIBLE DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE RAPIDLY EAST AND NORTHEAST.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 7:29 AM CST, 40 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-241530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 729 AM CST TUE NOV 24 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ALABAMA...INCLUDING CLARKE...MONROE...CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES... HEAVY RAIN HAS OCCURRED OVER SECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA OVERNIGHT DEPOSITING AS MUCH AS 2.28 INCHES AT SEMMES SINCE MIDNIGHT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MOBILE HAS MEASURED 1.73 SINCE MIDNIGHT AND 1.83 SINCE MONDAY EVENING. A HEAVY RAIN AT EVERGREEN DUMPED 0VER AN INCH AND A HALF SINCE 5 AM AND AN OVERNIGHT TOTAL OF ABOUT 2.25 INCHES. IN SOUTH MOBILE COUNTY GRAND BAY CAUGHT 1.51 AND FAIRHOPE GOT 2.60 INCHES. HEAVY RAIN FELL ALONG SECTIONS OF THE MISSISSIPPI COAST LAST NIGHT WITH BILOXI GAGING 2.11 SINCE MIDNIGHT. AT 730 AM RADAR SHOWED THE BACK EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION ALONG A GROVE HILL FAIRHOPE LINE WITH THE HEAVIER RAIN MOVING INTO MONROE AND WESTERN CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES. NO FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED OVERNIGHT BUT RAIN IS STILL FALLING IN PARTS OF THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AREA...STAY ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IS FLASH FLOODING IS REPORTED OR A WARNING ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 7:36 AM CST, 33 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-241430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 740 AM CST TUE NOV 24 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 11 AM CSR... AT 735 AM CST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTHERN HOLMES COUNTY...AND DE FUNIAK SPRINGS OF WALTON COUNTY...SOUTHWEST TO FT WALTON BEACH AND DESTIN AND OVER THE GULF TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LINE ARE INDICATING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED OF STREETS AND LOW AREAS.
Local storm report, Nov 24, 7:56 AM CST, 13 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
750 AM CST TUE NOV 24 1992
TIME EVENT
540 AM WIND GUST TO 56 KTS AT PENSACOLA REGIONAL AIRPORT
SVR IN EFFECT
600 AM SANTA ROSA EM REPORTS TORNADO AT INTERSTATE 10 NEAR
MILTON FL. SEVERAL REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE TO TREES.
TOR WRNG IN EFFECT
ARDFIELD ROAD RUNS BETWEEN HWY 182 AND HWY 178 IN NORTH
PART OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY. 4000 BALES OF HAY WERE
DAMAGED BY RAIN. ESTIMATED $50000 OF DAMAGE. FROM E.M.
1030 AM OKALOOSA COUNTY...SHERIFF DEPUTY REPORTED A FUNNEL
CLOUD ON POVERTY CREEK ROAD NEAR THE CRESTVIEW AIRPORT.
THE FUNNEL DID NOT TOUCH DOWN AND NO DAMAGE WAS
REPORTED. FROM SKYWARN.Local storm report, Nov 24, 8:00 AM CST, 9 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
750 AM CST TUE NOV 24 1992
TIME EVENT
540 AM WIND GUST TO 56 KTS AT PENSACOLA REGIONAL AIRPORT
SVR IN EFFECT
600 AM SANTA ROSA EM REPORTS TORNADO AT INTERSTATE 10 NEAR
MILTON FL. SEVERAL REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE TO TREES.
TOR WRNG IN EFFECTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 5:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 32 min |
| Nov 24, 5:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 56 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.