Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1992, 7:53 PM CDT for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1992, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 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
- 1190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 120056 SVRMGM ALC069-120200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 753 PM CDT SAT APR 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...HOUSTON COUNTY RADAR INDICARES A THUNDERSTORM OVER DOTHAN AND DRIFTING NORTHEAST. REPORTS OF GOLF BALL HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTOKRISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Apr 11, 6:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
ALZ015-120015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 610 PM CDT SAT APR 11 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SECTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA... AT 605 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE WAS INDICATING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN CONECUH AND NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTIES IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF REPTON AND LENOX IN CONECUH COUNTY AND EXTENDED SOUTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF APPLETON AND WALLACE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD AND MAY SOON AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF CASTLEBERRY AND KIRKLAND. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD KEEP APPRISED OF C;HANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL CAN OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FUTURE STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 6:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
FLZ001>004-120130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 650 PM CST SAT APR 11 1992 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT TONIGHT... DENSE COASTAL FOG HAS FORMED IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE REDUCING VISIBILITIES IN THE COASTAL AREAS BETWEEN NAVARRE AND DESTIN. AS THE TEMPERATURE COOLS TONIGHT THE FOG SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND SPREAD INTO MORE AREAS OF THE PANHANDLE. IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO BE OUT TONIGHT...BE PREPARED TO DRI+VE SLOWLY IN THE FOG...USE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE IN THE FOGGY AREAS BY 9 TO 10 AM FRIDAY MORNING.
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.