Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1992, 2:47 PM CST for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1992, 2:47 PM CST (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1992, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 43 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, 8.8 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 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 KMGM 302048 SVRMGM ALC069-109-302130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 247 PM CST MON MAR 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...HOUSTON COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR TROY IN PIKE COUNTY AND IN WESTERN HOUSTON COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 2 50PM CST. 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 FLOXOR 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, 2 hours 12 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, 1 hour 55 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, 1:10 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
FLZ001>004-301940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 105 PM CST MON MAR 30 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...HOLMES...WASHINGTON AND BAY COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ALONG WITH THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON AND BAY COUNTIES... AT 100 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA FROM MOBILE BAY TO MCDAVID TO NEAR ANDALUSIA. IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF CRESTVIEW AND NORTH OF MOLINO. HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND DANyGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Mar 30, 1:59 PM CST, 48 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
155 PM CST MON MAR 30 1992
TIMES(CST) LOCATION(MILES) EVENT
125PM NE CONECUH COUNTY TREES DOWNED REPORTED BY EVERGREEN
STATE POLICE OF ALABAMA
110PM CASTLEBERRY 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL REPORTED BY
EVERGREEN STATE POLICE OF ALABAMA
MLocal storm report, Mar 30, 2:41 PM CST, 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
235 PM CST MAN MAR 30 1992
TIME EVENT
215-230 PM WALTON COUNTY...DIME TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN AND
SOUTHEAST OF PAXTON (NfORTHERN WALTON COUNTY)
SEVERAL VEHICLES WERE DAMAGED.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, 12:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 33 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 | 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.