Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1992, 12:57 PM CST for Conecuh County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1992, 12:57 PM CST (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1992, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Conecuh County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 301859 SVRMOB ALC035-053-301930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1257 PM CST MON MAR 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN CONECUH COUNTY...EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN CONECUH COUNTY IN ALABAMA... AT 1:00 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE WAS INDICATING A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTEASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN CONECUH COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATLEY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FUTURE STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY 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, Mar 30, 12:35 PM CST, 22 minutes before
ALZ015-016-301930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1233 PM CST MON MAR 30 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA... AT 1225 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE WAS INDICATING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN A LINE FROM NORTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA TO NORTHCENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY. THE MOST SIGNIFICNT ACTIVITY WAS INDICATED OVER CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY WHERE A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF ATMORE AND JUST WEST OF FLOMATON. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 12:52 PM CST, 5 minutes before
ALZ015-016-301930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1233 PM CST MON MAR 30 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA... AT 1225 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE WAS INDICATING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN A LINE FROM NORTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA TO NORTHCENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY. THE MOST SIGNIFICNT ACTIVITY WAS INDICATED OVER CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY WHERE A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF ATMORE AND JUST WEST OF FLOMATON. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dallas, Wilcox | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 1:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Geneva | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Henry | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Houston | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Pike | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 3:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Henry | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 3:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock | 69 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.