Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 13, 1992, 2:25 PM CST for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 1992, 2:25 PM CST (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 1992, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 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 132028 SVRMGM ALC013-132130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 225 PM CST MON JAN 13 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 ...BUTLER COUNTY AT 225 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BUTLER COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 50 MPH. 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, Jan 13, 1:58 PM CST, 27 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-132100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 157 PM CST MON JAN 13 1992 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MOBILE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 115 PM... TORNADO WATCHES FOR BOTH SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL LATER TODAY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MOBILE TO MONROEVILEE TO GREENVILLE IN ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED THE TORNADO SOUTH OF LUCEDALE MISSISSIPPI MOVED INTO MOBILE COUNTY AND HAVE WEAKENED DURING THE PAST FEW MINUTES. STRONG WINDS AND INTENSE RAINFALL WAS REPORTED AT MT. VERNON AROUND 130 PM. A REPORT OF MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS IN EXTREME SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY WAS JUST RECEIVED FROM THE STATE TROOPERS OFFICE IN EVERGREEN. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTHEAST TO EAST FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE LIKELY IN THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AREA. RESIDENTS SHOULD REFRAIN FROM DRIVING ACROSS WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. REPORTS FROM THE STORM AREA NEAR LUCEDALE INDICATED A RESIDENCE WAS UNROOFED AND MOST OF THE WINDOWS BLOWN OUT. NO INJURIES REPORTED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 9:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 119 min |
| Jan 13, 12:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 29 min |
| Jan 13, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 29 min |
| Jan 13, 2:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 68 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.