Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1992, 3:36 PM CST for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1992, 3:36 PM CST (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1992, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bullock County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:40 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Bullock, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 KMGM 302137 SVRMGM ALC011-302245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 336 PM CST MON MAR 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...BULLOCK COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT DANNNELLY FIELD SHOWS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF UNION SPRINGS MOVING EASTSOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 3 hours 1 minute 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, 2 hours 44 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, 2 hours 26 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, 1 hour 37 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, 55 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.Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:36 PM CST, 0 minutes before
FLZ001>004-ALZ010-013>018-MSZ012>014-302230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 330 PM CST MON MAR 30 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...HOLMES...WASHINGTON...AND BAY COUNTIES. AT 335 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM MILTON AND CRESTVIEW EASTARD TO BONIFAY...THE SOUTHEASTERNMOST CORNER OF ALABAMA...AND INTO SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE JUST EAST OF MONTGOMERY ALABAMA. MOVEMENTS WERE TO THE EASTSOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
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 | 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.